Chemicals · PLM
PLM for chemical manufacturers
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.
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The problem
Why generic PLM failschemicals manufacturer teams.
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.
A working day
Approving a raw material substitution
Procurement proposes an alternative supplier grade at a lower cost.
Today: technical checks the specification, regulatory checks classification, and someone remembers late that two customers hold an agreed specification for this product.
In Worldover: the proposed change shows the formulas, classifications, labels, documents and customer specifications it touches before it's approved.
Approval creates the tasks for document reissue and customer notification automatically.
The new version becomes the released specification and production and planning follow it immediately.
How it runs
How PLM worksinside Worldover.
01
One substance record, many formulas
Identifiers, purity, hazard data and approved suppliers belong to the substance and are inherited everywhere it's used.
02
Versions hold their evidence
Every formula version carries its specification, test data, classification basis and approvals.
03
Change shows its blast radius
Before approval, the record lists the products, documents, markets and customers a change affects.
04
Release drives the rest of the system
The approved version becomes the basis for planning, production, documents and customer communication.
What's in it
The detail behindPLM.
PLM
Products 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.
Packaging Specification Management
Packaging 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.
Supplier Portals
Suppliers add data and documents directly to the platform.
Direct supplier input
Suppliers add data and documents straight into the platform rather than by email.
The difference
Why the substance recordmakes the difference.
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.
Better together
What changes when PLMshares a record with the rest of your setup.
PLM + Regulatory
Classification and document reissue follow the approved formula version automatically.
Explore RegulatoryPLM + QMS
Specifications and release criteria stay aligned with the current version.
Explore QMSPLM + MRP
Material requirements and approved suppliers update with the change.
Explore MRPWillow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- 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.
Willow doesn't replace expert judgment. It removes the searching, re-keying and chasing between the systems that hold your answers.
Request a demo
We'll walk through your current workflow, then show the same workflow running on one record.
Research
Compared with the alternatives
If you're still building a shortlist, these break the market down side by side.
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