Supplements · R&D
R&D software for supplement manufacturers
Today
A blend that flowed perfectly at 5kg segregates at 400kg, and the trial history that would explain it's spread across notebooks and one technologist's memory.
Generic lab and project tools record that a trial happened. They don't hold actives, assay basis, overage, permitted forms, maximum levels or the cost the formulation has to hit, so feasibility is discovered late.
With Worldover
Worldover R&D connects blend trials, compression and fill data, stability and scale-up results to the formulation version, the material specifications and the brief they belong to.
Development output is a specification production can run and regulatory can defend, rather than a formulation that needs re-proving.
The problem
Why generic R&D failssupplements manufacturer teams.
Trials are stored, not connected
A shared drive records the result. It can't tell you the winning trial used a premix grade you no longer buy.
Cost and MOQ arrive after the science
Technologists optimise the dose, then find the active has a 250kg minimum order and a twelve-week lead time, so the work is redone.
Compliance is a gate, not an input
Permitted forms, maximum levels and claim wording are checked at the end, when change is expensive rather than free.
A working day
A Thursday in the lab
A customer asks for a vegan capsule version of an existing tablet at the same cost per serving.
Today: the technologist copies a spreadsheet, chases procurement for prices and asks regulatory whether the form is permitted in three markets.
In Worldover: the existing formulation is cloned as a new version with its cost, supplier and compliance context attached.
Candidate actives and excipients show price bands, MOQs, lead times and permitted forms while the technologist is still choosing.
Stability and dissolution results attach to the trial, and the version that passes becomes the released specification without re-entry.
How it runs
How R&D worksinside Worldover.
01
Brief lands with its constraints
Target cost per serving, format, market and claim requirements are visible in the lab, not sitting in the commercial team's inbox.
02
Trials build on the product record
Every trial references the actives, grades and batches used, so results stay interpretable months later.
03
Stability and testing run to completion
Protocols, pull points and results sit on the version, with outstanding tests visible before anyone promises a launch date.
04
Scale-up carries the evidence forward
Pilot and production trials link to the same version, so problems at scale are diagnosed against known lab conditions.
What's in it
The detail behindR&D.
R&D Lab Software
Digital lab covering raw materials, formulations and regulatory screening.
Raw materials workflow management
Build a raw material library with custom workflows across multiple material types, document types and field types, all defined by you during onboarding.
Composition management
Add ingredients to raw materials as ranges or exact percentages, with full impurities management at ppm.
Table management
Customisable views by coding system, part number, type or cost.
Complex cost management
Manage raw material costs with customisable costing modules, currency settings and automatic currency conversion.
Gap analysis
Reports showing which documents are present against which are missing.
Raw material administration
Codes and sub-codes to organise the library the way your team already thinks.
The difference
Why the substance recordmakes the difference.
Formulation is substance work. Worldover stores active form, salt factor, assay range, allergen status, excipient function and permitted use on the material itself, so a technologist meets the constraint while choosing rather than at the review meeting.
Better together
What changes when R&Dshares a record with the rest of your setup.
R&D + PLM
The winning trial becomes an approved formulation version rather than a document handed over.
Explore PLMR&D + QMS
Methods and specifications developed in the lab become the release criteria used on the line.
Explore QMSR&D + ERP
Costed formulations with overage produce a real margin picture before the quote goes out.
Explore ERPWillow
What teams actually askonce the record is in one place.
- Which trials used this premix grade, and what happened to dissolution when we changed it?
- What's the cheapest permitted form of this active that still meets the declared value?
- Which developments are waiting on stability pull points this month?
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.
- GuideWhy generic ERPs fail substance businessesThe data model problem behind most failed implementations.Read it
- ComparisonWorldover vs spreadsheets and shared drivesThe real cost of the stack most teams are still running.Read it
- ComparisonWorldover vs an in-house ERP and PLM stackBuild versus buy, with maintenance cost included.Read it











