Chemicals · PLM
PLM for chemical manufacturers
PLM for chemical manufacturers. Formula versions, substance data, specifications and change control connect to the classification, document and customer consequences of every revision.
Today
A raw material substitution is approved on Monday and the label, safety data sheet and customer specification are still describing the old product on Friday.
Generic PLM controls revisions of documents and parts. A chemical formula change is a regulatory event, a classification event and a customer contract event at the same time, and none of those are part fields.
With Worldover
Worldover PLM connects formula versions, substance data, specifications and change control to classification, documents, approved suppliers and the customers who hold a specification.
A change is approved with its full consequence visible, and every dependent document and customer commitment is updated in the same workflow.
What's in it
What PLMdoes inside Worldover.
The operational outcomes come first. Open any area to inspect the underlying controls, records and technical detail.
Standards and regimes
01PLMProducts with full BOMs across formulations, packaging components and artwork, plus configurable product workflows.
Products
High-level products carrying a full BOM: formulations, raw materials, packaging components and artwork.
Product specific workflows
Configurable product workflows, for example artwork approval or portal registrations, built from the same modules and document structures used elsewhere.
Product table management
Customisable table views so you can organise products by your own coding systems, part numbers, types and costs.
Components library
An infinitely nestable packaging library. A lid has a composition, joins a bottle to become a pack, and that pack can nest again as many layers deep as you need.
Components table management
The same customisable views across your component library.
BOM management
Build a full BOM across artwork, packaging, raw materials and formulations.
02Packaging Specification ManagementPackaging specifications, artwork and EU packaging compliance.
Components library management
Full specification management with nestable hierarchies: base components, sub-assemblies and finished packaging.
Artwork management
Upload, version and approve artwork linked to components and products.
AI artwork review
AI review of artwork against regulatory requirements, brand guidelines and packaging specifications.
Supplier specifications
Supplier-provided packaging specs with linked documentation and approvals.
Component costing
Multi-currency component costing with BOM roll-up.
Component table management
Customisable component table views.
03Supplier PortalsSuppliers add data and documents directly to the platform.
Direct supplier input
Suppliers add data and documents straight into the platform rather than by email.
One workflow, end to end
Approving a raw material substitution
The difference isn't another isolated tool. It's the same work running from one live record.
Where work breaks
Change control stops at approval
The change request is signed off, then the downstream document and customer work is coordinated by email.
Customer specifications are invisible
Many customers hold an agreed specification. Without it on the record, a routine internal change quietly breaches a contract.
Substance data is duplicated per product
The same substance carries different identifiers and statuses on different product files, so nothing reconciles.
- 01
Procurement proposes an alternative supplier grade at a lower cost.
- 02
Today: technical checks the specification, regulatory checks classification, and someone remembers late that two customers hold an agreed specification for this product.
- 03
In Worldover: the proposed change shows the formulas, classifications, labels, documents and customer specifications it touches before it's approved.
- 04
Approval creates the tasks for document reissue and customer notification automatically.
- 05
The new version becomes the released specification and production and planning follow it immediately.
With Worldover
- 1
One substance record, many formulas
Identifiers, purity, hazard data and approved suppliers belong to the substance and are inherited everywhere it's used.
- 2
Versions hold their evidence
Every formula version carries its specification, test data, classification basis and approvals.
- 3
Change shows its blast radius
Before approval, the record lists the products, documents, markets and customers a change affects.
- 4
Release drives the rest of the system
The approved version becomes the basis for planning, production, documents and customer communication.
Connected inside Worldover
One product workflow.Every consequence connected.
In chemicals, the product is the substance mixture. Holding composition, identifiers and hazard data once, rather than per document, is what allows a single approval to correctly update eleven products and their documentation.
Willow
Useful AI starts with live operational context.
Scoped permissions, human approval for anything material and a full audit trail of every action.
- What does this raw material substitution affect across products, documents and customers?
- Which customers hold an agreed specification for this product?
- Show every formula change on this product in the last two years with the reason recorded.
Buyer confidence
A specialist system, without a specialist-system rollout.
Worldover combines detailed operational control with a practical route to a live first phase.
- 50+
- 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
See it on your operation
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