Supplements · PLM
PLM for supplement manufacturers
PLM for supplement manufacturers. Actives, potency, overages, dose form, label declarations and approvals sit on one product record, so what's declared matches what's made.
Today
The declared value on the label was calculated from an overage that changed two formulation versions ago, and nobody spotted it until the retailer asked.
Generic PLM was built for assembled goods with fixed parts. A supplement is a dose form built from actives with variable potency, where an assay result, a supplier grade or an excipient swap changes the overage, the per-serving value and the claim at the same time.
With Worldover
Worldover PLM connects the brief, formulation version, actives and excipients, potency and overage rules, dose form, label declarations and approvals to the batch that's eventually made.
Every batch traces back to an approved formulation version, with the declaration and claim that were justified by it attached to the record.
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
A Tuesday in your technical team
The difference isn't another isolated tool. It's the same work running from one live record.
Where work breaks
A parts list can't hold potency
A bill of materials has quantities, not assay, active form, salt factor or overage rule. That's why the real formulation still lives in a spreadsheet that only one person maintains.
Label content is produced away from the formulation
Per-serving values, nutritional declarations and claims are typed into artwork tools that never see the formulation version being manufactured, so drift is invisible until an audit or a retailer challenge.
Change is treated as a document, not a chain
When an active changes grade, the consequence runs through overage, declaration, label, claim, specification and customer approval. Document-based systems log the request and leave the chain to people.
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A supplier switches a vitamin premix to a new grade with a different assay range.
- 02
Today: someone exports the formulation list, recalculates overages by hand, then asks regulatory to recheck declared values product by product.
- 03
In Worldover: the material record shows every formulation, dose form, label and open order it touches.
- 04
Overages recalculate against the new assay, and the products whose declared values move are flagged before artwork is reprinted.
- 05
The approved version carries its declaration, so the batch that runs and the label that ships come from the same record.
With Worldover
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Brief becomes a product record
Target dose, format, market, claim intent and cost land once and carry forward instead of being retyped into a development sheet.
- 2
Formulation versions carry their evidence
Each version holds actives, forms, assay basis, overage rules, excipients, supplier documents and the trials behind it.
- 3
Declarations come from the formulation
Per-serving values and nutritional declarations are calculated from the live version, so label content is derived rather than transcribed.
- 4
The approved version drives production
Blending, encapsulation and packing work from the released version, and the batch record links back to it permanently.
Connected inside Worldover
One product workflow.Every consequence connected.
Worldover holds the substance, not just the item code, so the same active is one record whether it appears at 200mg in a capsule or 50mg in a gummy. Change its assay, form or supplier and every formulation containing it's already connected, which is why an impact question takes seconds rather than a week of exports.
Willow
Useful AI starts with live operational context.
Scoped permissions, human approval for anything material and a full audit trail of every action.
- Which live products contain this active, and which of their declared values move if the assay drops?
- Show every formulation version change on this product since the last customer approval.
- Which labels need reprinting after this overage change?
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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Give us the essentials, then choose a 30-minute slot directly in the right person’s calendar. We’ll use your workflow, products and documents, not a generic slide deck.