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Live Webinar
Why Raw Materials Master Data Is So Critical for Formulators...

… And Why It’s So Hard to Get Right

📆 Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 3 PM CET
Duration: 45 minutes

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Raw Materials Master Data is a critical foundation for formulation organizations.
Yet in practice, it remains one of the hardest challenges to get right.

Fragmented data across labs and sites, inconsistent supplier identifiers, late regulatory validation and growing digital complexity all contribute to the problem.

In this webinar, we’ll explore why Raw Materials Master Data fails so often in real-world formulation environments, and what actually helps formulation teams move forward.

This is an educational session, not a product demo.

What you will learn:

  • What Raw Materials Master Data really means in formulation organizations
  • Why it is difficult to build, and even harder to scale
  • The role (and limits) of software systems and chemical data
  • Why software alone isn’t enough, and why data alone doesn’t solve the problem
  • How formulation teams combine system + data depending on their maturity and constraints

Key questions we will address:

  • Why does Raw Materials Master Data fail so often in practice?
  • Why does it break down across multiple labs, sites and teams?
  • Why do regulatory and compliance issues appear too late?
  • What prevents long-term success in real formulation environments?

Who should attend:

  • Formulation & R&D leaders
  • Senior Formulation Scientists
  • Procurement / Purchasing managers involved in raw materials
  • Regulatory, HSE & Quality teams
  • Digital, IT or Data leaders supporting formulation environments

Especially relevant for organizations working with: large numbers of suppliers, multiple labs or production sites, regulated markets, growing digital and AI-driven initiatives

Our Panel Speakers: 

Christophe Cabarry

Christophe Cabarry
Founder and CEO
of SpecialChem

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Benoit DeBecker
Executive Advisor 
former Sr VP Allnex

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Agenda (45 minutes):

  1. The reality of raw material data today Fragmentation, duplication and late compliance

  2. Raw Materials Master Data explained
         What it is, and what it is not

  3. What works in practice
    How formulation organizations combine system and data

  4. Live discussion & Q&A

The approaches discussed:

This webinar will reference two complementary building blocks:

  • ionicPIM: A system designed to structure and govern product and raw material data.

  • SpecialChem Chemical Data Services: A modular chemical data layer providing curated, regulatory-ready data

The focus is on principles, trade-offs and real-world patterns, not on product demonstrations.

Want to know more?

Looking to find out more about Product Master Data and ionicPIM solutions and how a structured data management can help you grow your business? 

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