Worldover, AI operating system for substance-based businesses

    Cosmetics · MRP

    Cosmetics MRP software for manufacturers.

    Cosmetics MRP software for manufacturers. Plan materials from the approved formula, see shortages early, raise purchase orders and schedule batches from usable stock.

    Today

    The plan says the job runs on Tuesday, but the bulk needs a material that's in quarantine and a component that has a six-week lead time nobody entered.

    Generic MRP plans against static bills of material and assumes stock is stock. In cosmetics, material is lot-controlled, shelf-life limited, sometimes quarantined and often substituted, and the formula itself changes during the job.

    With Worldover

    Worldover's cosmetics MRP software turns customer demand into material requirements, shortage actions, purchasing proposals and a batch schedule. The plan uses the released formula, packaging, usable lot stock, supplier lead times and line capacity. ERP handles the connected orders, receipts, costs and invoices.

    You commit to dates you can hold, and you find out about a shortage while it's still a purchasing decision rather than a missed dispatch.

    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.

    Worldover campaign plan showing weekly vessel schedules, colour sequencing and cleaning, material lots with QC status, and inbound deliveries

    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.

    The week's jobs sit against real line hours, material readiness and quarantine status, not a spreadsheet exported last Friday. Campaigns group compatible runs so changeovers and cleaning time are planned rather than discovered on the day.

    • Line time is the constraint

      Every job is booked against actual shift hours per line, so an overloaded Tuesday is visible before it becomes a late order.

    • Materials checked per job

      Usable, released stock is counted per job. Quarantined and expired lots are left out automatically, and shortages surface while there is still time to act.

    • Rush orders without chaos

      A rush job is slotted against line time and usable stock in one view, showing exactly what moves and what stays put before anyone commits to the customer.

    Worldover production plan showing the week's jobs against line hours, material readiness and quarantined lots

    MRP · Material requirements and production planning

    A production plan you can commit to.

    Plan bulk, filling and packing together. Worldover MRP connects approved formulas, raw materials, packaging, usable stock and line capacity, so a customer promise starts with a production plan that can actually run.

    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 plan

    What 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 customer brings a launch forward. The bulk can be made, but the pump arrives later and the filling line is already committed. See the constraint before accepting the date, then review the purchasing and scheduling changes together.

    From order book to released batch

    The detail that makes the plan workable.

    01

    Turn demand into a material plan

    Explode the approved formula and packaging BOM together. Raw materials, bottles, pumps, caps and cartons belong to the same finished-product commitment, not separate spreadsheets.

    02

    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.

    03

    Know what stock you can actually use

    Check released lots, remaining quantities, expiry and existing allocations before purchasing. A raw material in quarantine can't cover tomorrow's run, even if it's physically on the shelf.

    04

    Fit the work into real capacity

    Plan bulk manufacture, filling and packing against machinery, shifts, labour and changeovers. Finished bulk isn't a finished order if there's no filling slot or packing team.

    05

    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.

    06

    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

    A Monday planning meeting

    The difference isn't another isolated tool. It's the same work running from one live record.

    Where work breaks

    Stock figures ignore quality status

    Quarantined, retained and expiring material still counts as available in most planning tools, so plans look feasible until the day they aren't.

    Formula changes don't re-plan

    A late formula revision changes the material list, but the purchase requisitions were raised against the old one.

    Packaging is planned separately from bulk

    Components come from different suppliers with different lead times, so the bulk is ready and the job still can't ship.

    1. 01

      Four jobs are scheduled for the week and one customer has added a rush order.

    2. 02

      Today: planning exports stock, asks QA what is released, asks procurement about the late component, and rebuilds the schedule in a spreadsheet.

    3. 03

      In Worldover: each job shows its released formula, available lot quantities net of quarantine and expiry, and the components with confirmed dates.

    4. 04

      The rush order is tested against real capacity and material before it's accepted.

    5. 05

      The shortage that would have stopped Thursday's job is raised as a purchase action on Monday morning.

    With Worldover

    1. 1

      Demand arrives with its product record

      Orders and forecasts reference the product and released formula, so requirements are explosion of the real recipe.

    2. 2

      Availability reflects quality and shelf life

      Only genuinely usable lots count towards coverage, with expiry taken into account for the planned run date.

    3. 3

      Supply parameters are held per supplier

      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.

    4. 4

      Capacity and sequence are visible

      Line availability, changeover and allergen sequencing are part of the plan rather than a note on the whiteboard.

    Connected inside Worldover

    One product workflow.Every consequence connected.

    Planning on the substance record means a single material shortage shows its full consequence at once: which formulas, which jobs, which customers, which promised dates. Substitution decisions are made against approved alternatives, not against whatever else is on the shelf.

    Willow

    Useful AI starts with live operational context.

    Scoped permissions, human approval for anything material and a full audit trail of every action.

    • What stops the jobs scheduled this week from running, and what needs ordering today?
    • If we move this 2,000 unit run to next Tuesday, what expires before then?
    • Which approved alternative materials could cover the shortfall on this formula?

    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

    See it on your operation

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