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Turn demand into a material plan
Explode released compositions through intermediates and finished blends. Plan raw material quantities, charge weights, expected yields and drum, IBC or bulk delivery requirements against each order.
Chemicals · MRP
Chemical MRP software for manufacturers.
Chemical MRP software for manufacturers. Plan from usable stock, including part-drums and IBCs, net demand against charge weights and yields, and see shortages early.
Today
The schedule assumes material is available and the vessel is free, and both assumptions fail on the day, so a campaign slips and a customer is told late.
Generic MRP plans discrete units through work centres. Chemical production is campaigns, vessels, cleaning between incompatible products, variable yield and lot-controlled, shelf-life limited inputs.
With Worldover
Worldover's chemical MRP software plans material requirements, shortage actions, purchasing proposals and campaign schedules. Released formulas, charge weights, expected yields, usable part-drums and IBCs, vessel capacity and cleaning rules shape the plan. ERP carries the resulting orders, receipts and costs.
Campaigns are planned against real constraints, so promised dates hold and expensive changeovers are minimised.
What's in it
What MRPdoes inside Worldover.
The operational outcomes come first. Open any area to inspect the underlying controls, records and technical detail.
Standards and regimes
FDA 21 CFR Part 11FDA 21 CFR Part 111
01Manufacturing Execution System (MES)Electronic batch records, dual signatures, QA release and full lot traceability.
Electronic batch records
Replace the paper batch record with records captured live across the manufacturing process.
Three-level order structure
Mixing, encapsulation and finished goods modelled as a linked order hierarchy, with material and lot flow between each level.
Dual-signature control
Performer and verifier electronic signatures against each recorded step, supporting 21 CFR Part 11 electronic signatures.
Multi-stage sampling and QA release
In-process sampling points and staged quality releases before a batch can progress.
Lot and batch traceability
Full lot traceability across every stage.
Incoming goods QA
Goods-in quality checks on receipt, with an internal lot ID assigned to every received material.
02Demand PlanningDemand forecasting and sales velocity tracking feeding production planning.
Demand forecasting
Forecast from raw order data pulled through the Shopify and Fulfill APIs, with seasonality and trend analysis. Forecasts recalibrate as demand changes.
Sales velocity tracking
Sell-through by product, channel and region, replacing the manual demand work that drives stock-level and production inconsistency.
Production planning integration
AI-proposed manufacturing jobs from current inventory, incoming demand, safety stock and supplier lead times, surfaced for manual approval, then fed into production planning with automatic raw material ordering.
03Production PlanningProduction orders, scheduling, BOM explosion and AI-led capacity planning.
Production order management
Orders linked to formulations, BOMs and inventory, tracked through every manufacturing stage.
Scheduling and capacity planning
Schedule from a full resource map of machinery, labour, shifts and skill matrices, allocating machine slots, packing, filling and labour for maximum utilisation.
Labour costing and allocation
Cost labour against orders with configurable rate cards.
Bill of materials explosion
Explode BOMs from formulations to generate material requirements for each run.
PO management
Purchase orders linked to production requirements and supplier lead times.
AI-led automated production planning
Scheduling that optimises across machine throughput, staff capability, raw material lead times and job priorities, surfacing issues in real time with suggested fixes. Replaces the manual scheduling spreadsheet. Requires Inventory Management.
04Inventory ManagementStock control, purchasing and supplier management in one place.
Inventory overview
A dashboard of stock levels for every item: raw materials, packaging and finished goods.
Stock and non-stock items
Separate items you always hold from items ordered for a specific job.
Request stock
Team members request stock against particular jobs.
PO management
End-to-end management of customer purchase orders.
Supplier order management
Supplier orders in one place, removing the email switching procurement relies on today.
Stock log audit
The audit trail underneath every stock calculation.
05Warehouse ManagementLocations, receiving, picking and dispatch with barcode scanning.
Location management
Zones, aisles, racks and bin locations with configurable hierarchies.
Receiving and putaway
Receive against purchase orders and assign putaway locations with barcode scanning.
Pick, pack and dispatch
Pick lists from production or customer orders, with pack confirmation and dispatch workflows.
Bin and location transfers
Stock movements between locations with a full audit trail.
Integration with Inventory
Natively linked to Inventory Management for real-time stock visibility.
The products behind the operation
MRP and ERP at the centre. Every dependent workflow connected.
Specialist depth for every team, working on the same materials, products, orders and batches. No planning tools bolted onto a product database. No generic ERP with formulation hidden in an attachment.
This is one example of a connected system. It's an MRP campaign plan, and it can only be built this way because company, stock, product, regulatory and formulation data all sit on the same system. The schedule knows which lots are released and usable, what each approved formula and packaging BOM needs, and which obligations apply to the product being made. That's what turns a calendar of vessels into a plan the factory can run.
Planning in Worldover
Production and campaign planning, on live data.
Campaigns run across vessels with cleaning rules, colour sequence and lot-level stock in the same view. The plan counts usable part-drums and IBCs against every batch, and flags inbound delays and shortages before they reach the vessel.
Vessels, not spreadsheets
Each vessel carries its own week: batches, rinses and full cleans sequenced by grade and colour, with free hours visible for the next order.
Lot-level stock drives the plan
Only released lots count towards a batch. Charge weights draw down specific part-drums and IBCs, and anything in QC stays out of the number.
Shortages flagged early
When a delivery slips or usable stock falls short of a batch, the gap is shown against the job it threatens, with days to reorder or resequence.
MRP · Material requirements and production planning
A production plan you can commit to.
Plan campaigns, not just quantities. Worldover MRP connects released compositions, intermediates, usable lots, supplier lead times and vessel capacity, so purchasing and production work towards the same customer dates.
Fewer last-minute shortages. Less stock bought just in case. More visibility of what your factory can deliver, before you promise the date.
See MRP on your production planWhat do we need to make?
Orders and demand become production requirements from the approved formula and BOM.
What do we need to buy?
Usable stock and supplier lead times determine the shortfall, not a stock total alone.
When can we actually deliver?
Materials, machinery, labour and production sequence meet in the same plan.
A solvent delivery slips while three grades share a vessel. See which campaigns and orders depend on it, check usable part-drums, and review a revised sequence with the cleaning time and customer commitments in view.
From order book to released batch
The detail that makes the plan workable.
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Buy for the plan, not for the panic
Consolidate requirements across jobs into supplier purchase proposals. Lead times, pack sizes and minimum order quantities shape what needs ordering and when, so procurement can act before a shortage becomes an urgent delivery.
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Know what stock you can actually use
Use the lot record to distinguish usable part-drums from quarantined, allocated or out-of-date stock. Retest and release status matter more than a single total quantity.
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Fit the work into real capacity
Plan vessel and reactor capacity, campaign order and cleaning sequences alongside machinery, labour and shifts. A material-ready campaign still needs the right equipment and a viable slot.
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See the consequence of a change
A late supplier delivery, revised formula or urgent order affects more than one row in a schedule. Trace the affected materials, production jobs and customer dates, then review the proposed response while there's still time to make a decision.
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Connect the plan to the batch
Production orders stay linked to formulations, BOMs and inventory. Add MES for execution and batch records, and QMS for testing and release, so planners work with production and quality evidence rather than yesterday's export.
Questions from manufacturing teams.
AI MRP
AI MRP that plans with your team, not instead of it.
Willow, the AI colleague inside Worldover, works on the same live orders, lots and formulas as your planners.
Proposes manufacturing jobs
Drafts jobs from open orders, usable stock and real line capacity, ready for a planner to review.
Flags problems early
Spots shortages, expiring or quarantined lots and late supplier deliveries before they stop a batch.
Suggests the fix
Recommends substitutions you've already approved, purchase proposals or a reshuffled schedule.
People approve every decision
Nothing changes the plan without sign-off, and every change is logged against the record.
One workflow, end to end
Planning next month's campaigns
The difference isn't another isolated tool. It's the same work running from one live record.
Where work breaks
Yield is treated as fixed
Actual yield varies by grade, batch size and equipment, so a plan built on a nominal figure under-orders material.
Sequencing rules live in people's heads
What can follow what without a full clean is operational knowledge that no generic planner holds.
Shelf life is ignored until it bites
Material bought to cover a campaign expires when the campaign moves, and the write-off is discovered at stock count.
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Three products share a vessel and one has a customer date that can't move.
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Today: planning builds a sequence in a spreadsheet, then reworks it when procurement flags a nine-week lead time on a key raw material.
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In Worldover: the plan shows material coverage, expiry, vessel availability and required cleans in one view.
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The sequence that avoids two full cleans is proposed, with the material orders it requires.
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When a supplier confirms late, the affected customer dates are flagged immediately rather than at dispatch.
With Worldover
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Requirements explode the real formula
Worldover provides up-to-date costs across your entire supplier list, automatically refreshed every day through supplier outreach and connected workflows. Purchasing and quoting use the same cost record, rather than separate price spreadsheets. Check the latest supplier response, unit, currency, quantity tier and validity before committing a purchase or customer quote; a daily workflow isn't a guarantee that every supplier replies that day.
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Availability is lot-aware
Quarantine, retest dates and shelf life determine what can actually be used on the planned date.
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Capacity includes vessels and cleaning
Equipment, changeover and compatibility rules shape the campaign, not just labour hours.
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Exceptions surface early
Late supply, expiring stock and capacity clashes are raised as actions while there's still time to act.
Connected inside Worldover
One product workflow.Every consequence connected.
Planning a substance business means planning intermediates, not just finished goods. Because Worldover holds multi-level formulas and lot genealogy, a shortage on one raw material shows its effect on every intermediate, campaign and customer order downstream.
01Chemical inventory management softwareLots, hazards and SDS-linked stock tracked in real time against the plan.02Chemical ERP softwareConnect the campaign plan to purchase orders, receipts, lot transactions, costing and invoicing.03QMSOnly released, in-date lots count as available.04PLMFormula and approved supplier changes trigger a re-plan.
Willow
Useful AI starts with live operational context.
Scoped permissions, human approval for anything material and a full audit trail of every action.
- What is the cheapest campaign sequence next month that still hits the fixed customer date?
- Which raw materials expire before their planned campaign?
- If this delivery slips two weeks, which customer orders are at risk?
Buyer confidence
A specialist system, without a specialist-system rollout.
Worldover combines detailed operational control with a practical route to a live first phase.
- 125+
- Enterprise customers across cosmetics, chemicals and supplements
- 4 to 7
- Point systems typically retired, most within 6 months of go-live
- 12 to 16 weeks
- To a live Phase 1, not a multi-year programme
- 1 record
- Per substance, everywhere it appears
Buyer questions
Choosing chemical MRP software.
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