Cosmetics · CRM
CRM for cosmetic contract manufacturers
Today
A brand chases a sample, a quote revision and a document at once, and the answer to each sits with a different person in a different system.
A generic CRM tracks deals and contacts. In contract manufacturing the deal is a technical conversation: a brief, a formula, a sample, a specification, a set of documents. None of that fits in a pipeline field.
With Worldover
Worldover CRM connects enquiries, briefs, samples, quotes and technical questions to the formula, job, batch and document record they concern.
Account managers answer without asking the lab, and the reason a customer went quiet is visible as a stalled sample or an unanswered technical question.
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The problem
Why generic CRM failscosmetics manufacturer teams.
The pipeline hides the real blocker
A deal marked 'awaiting decision' is usually awaiting a stability result or a document, and generic CRM cannot show that.
Samples are untracked work
Sample requests consume lab and material capacity, but sit in email, so nobody measures cost to serve or conversion.
Technical answers are re-created each time
The same customer questions about allergens, claims or origin are answered from scratch because previous answers were never attached to the product.
A working day
A Tuesday morning enquiry
An existing customer asks for a vegan-certified version of two products and a price for 15,000 units.
Today: the account manager forwards it to technical, chases procurement for cost, and updates the customer three days later.
In Worldover: the enquiry attaches to both existing products, showing which materials block a vegan claim and which have approved alternatives.
A sample request is raised against the formula, with its own material cost and lab time visible.
The quote, the sample and the technical answer all live on the account, so the next question doesn't restart the process.
How it runs
How CRM worksinside Worldover.
01
Enquiries land on the product record
New briefs and repeat requests attach to the products, formulas and customers they involve.
02
Samples are tracked as work
Sample requests carry material, cost, lab time and outcome, so cost to serve is measurable per customer.
03
Quotes reference real feasibility
Commercial commitments reflect what the technical and planning records say is possible.
04
Document requests are answered from the record
Certificates, specifications and declarations are issued from the live product, not rebuilt in Word.
What's in it
The detail behindCRM.
Quote Management
Central costing matrix with detailed breakdowns and quote management per product.
Central costing matrix
A flexible costing matrix holding categories such as equipment, administration, shipping and labour.
Detailed costing breakdown
Each category breaks into line items, each with fixed and variable costs.
Costing modules
Cost against packaging ratios, vessel sizes and other real production variables.
Quote management
Manage every quote associated with a product.
Customer Portals
Share your catalogue, data and documents with customers under permission control.
Permissioned sharing
Share data and documentation with customers through a portal, with permission control over exactly what is shared.
Product catalogue
Publish a live catalogue of the products you sell, drawn from the same records as your stock and documentation, so pricing, pack sizes, grades and availability are never out of date.
Catalogue search and filtering
Customers search and filter your catalogue by product name, INCI or CAS number, function, origin, certification or grade, and open the linked SDS, CoA and specification from the listing.
Catalogue visibility control
Decide which customers or customer groups see which products, prices and documents, so distribution agreements and territory restrictions are respected automatically.
Sample and quote requests
Customers request samples, pricing or quantities straight from a catalogue listing, and the request lands against the product and account record rather than in an inbox.
Product brochures and dossiers
Generate branded product brochures and dossiers straight from the product record, pulling current specifications, certifications, origin statements and SDSs into a single shareable document.
CRM
Contacts, accounts, pipeline and activity tracking linked to platform data.
Contact management
Centralised contact and account records linked to orders, products and documents.
Account and company management
Company records with subsidiary structures, key stakeholders and account history.
Deal and opportunity pipeline
Configurable pipeline with stage management, probability and deal value reporting.
Activity tracking
Emails, calls, meetings and tasks logged against contacts and accounts.
Task management
Tasks linked to contacts, accounts and deals.
Platform data integration
CRM accounts link to products, formulations, orders and regulatory records, giving one commercial and operational view.
The difference
Why the substance recordmakes the difference.
Customers in this market ask substance questions: what is in it, where is it from, is it allowed in this market, can you certify it. Because the CRM sits on the same substance record as the formula, those answers come from the product itself and stay consistent between the sales team and the technical team.
Better together
What changes when CRMshares a record with the rest of your setup.
Willow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Which open enquiries are waiting on a technical answer rather than a commercial decision?
- How many samples have we produced for this customer this year, and what did they convert to?
- Draft an answer to this customer's allergen question using the current formula.
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
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