Why should a cosmetic ingredients manufacturer consider using Unifize
Wilson discusses the specific benefits of Unifize for cosmetic ingredient manufacturers, focusing on the platform's role in enhancing collaboration, quality control, and regulatory compliance. The video underscores the importance of adopting advanced tools like Unifize in a competitive and highly regulated industry.
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00:00 - 00:01
I would absolutely recommend it.



00:01 - 00:12
I think any manufacturer of cosmetic ingredients would stand to see a lot of benefit in rolling out a, a Unifize style system.



00:12 - 00:17
I understand that it was it's somewhat easier for us, given our size.



00:17 - 00:28
The resource question you posed to companies larger than us would be infinitely more complicated. But overall, the value proposition, I think scales really, really well as the business begins to grow.



00:28 - 00:50
I would say to other companies in our industry that if you're having issues with interdepartmental collaboration for quality assurance in maintaining the quality output of your products, consider using, you know, giving Unifize a shot because I know that there's still lots of larger companies out there. They're still using a manual system and they have lots of headcount dedicated towards making that manual system work.



00:50 - 01:14
And I think there's just a lot of efficiencies that could be discovered. They are being able to leverage a tool like Unifize, Unifize itself is not a solution to having bad processes. But if you have good processes in place, but the way you execute those processes is too resource intensive, and you're having issues with keeping everyone on the same page, a platform like Unifize can solve a lot of those issues.

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But what we've known from what I experience was, is we were able to get there with the system. We still there with the system. The system has what is needed to provide us what we're looking for, because every company, admittedly, is trying to get compliant. If we educate people, if we get people the education that they need and to get over the fear factor, I think 90% of those things can be resolved because most people will go to what they're most familiar with.What I worked with from a different company, but they're not willing to sit down and look at what the demographics are saying. People are into social media now. People are moving fast into fast paced world. But technologies are still antiquated. So there's a disconnect here, right? So while we're moving at a fast pace at home with dragging at work, so why can't we continue that speed while we at work?If your supplier has issues and you're not informed on time, you want to have an alternate supplier in place. If your suppliers are not qualified, you may not know that that needs to happen. And so when you have an integrated system that speaks to itself and is giving you all this data, you literally have the pulse of the organization in your hands as an executive at a money bound access.

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