Paints & coatings software: fewer risk, better on-time delivery
Connect formulas, batches, quality, compliance, and cost control in one integrated Microsoft environment.
Paints & coatings software: End-to-End processes that future-proof your business
Formulas, fluctuating raw material availability, raw material changes, highly variable products, and documentation requirements — all of these directly affect your ability to deliver on time in the paints and coatings industry. Smart software that digitalizes your business processes improves delivery performance and on-time rates while keeping you reliably on top of compliance requirements.
COSMO CONSULT helps you connect your commercial workflows, batch processes, and quality decisions end to end, so every piece of information reaches the right people at the right time — in R&D, production, or sales. The result: less coordination overhead and rework, and a single source of truth you can rely on when capacity gets tight or plans need to change. With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as your ERP platform, formula versions, approvals, test values, and documentation chains come together in a scalable, auditable system.
Business Central can be extended with IoT, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI — for connected real-time data, faster decisions, and airtight compliance.
There are plenty of challenges: here's how we tackle them
Here’s how we support paints & coatings manufacturers across the value chain
Research & Development
Digital formula and product development
Piloting and approval
IP protection through role-based access controls
Formulas and Master Data as a Single Source of Truth
In the paints and coatings industry, formulas are more than product descriptions — they are the foundation of your value creation and a critical piece of intellectual property. COSMO CONSULT's industry solution COSMO ERP Coatings supports you with clean versioning, approval workflows, and role-based access models, so changes never slip through the cracks and your teams aren't working off shadow copies. This lets you evaluate raw material changes faster without compromising quality or regulatory compliance.
Centralize your data in our paints and coatings software, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, to derive consistent specifications, labeling, and documentation. The result: less time spent searching and coordinating, fewer errors, and better delivery performance — even with high product variety and changing raw material quality.
Compliance that keeps pace with your process
Environment, health and safety & hazardous substance data
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) covers all environment-, health-, and safety-related data and processes — including the structured management of hazardous substances and compliance records. The regulatory requirements tied to REACH, CLP, UFI/PCN, VOC, and ADR are highly data-intensive.
Our paints and coatings software establishes a consistent data foundation so that hazardous substance classifications, required documents, and responsibilities are managed within the process — not chased down manually after the fact. This reduces audit risk and accelerates approvals.
Hazardous materials and dangerous goods processes, fully integrated
Developed in partnership with Trace One, COSMO ERP Hazardous Substance Management delivers end-to-end digitalization of your hazardous materials and dangerous goods processes — from substance data and Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to shipping documentation.
Integrating hazardous substance management directly into ERP, warehouse, and shipping processes creates traceable workflows, reduces error-prone manual steps, and raises the overall safety level of your day-to-day operations.
Batch planning that brings capacity and approvals together
Intelligent scheduling instead of shaky deadlines
High product variety and frequent batch changeovers can make reliable delivery commitments a real challenge. COSMO CONSULT connects your planning with material status, approvals, and production reality in a single ERP solution for the paints and coatings industry — so schedules don't spiral out of control. The result: fewer last-minute changes and a more stable, predictable production environment.
Less downtime, less fire-fighting
When materials are on hand but approvals or capacity are missing, your production flow stalls. With transparent status and bottleneck information built into our paints and coatings software, you get more stable operations and fewer urgent interventions. Your teams gain clarity — and a significantly higher on-time delivery rate that keeps your customers satisfied.
Quality control at every step
Inspect and approve within the running process
Quality parameters like color accuracy, viscosity, and gloss must be maintained consistently throughout production. Integrated, process-embedded quality assurance anchors inspections, holds, and approvals at the exact moment decisions need to be made — not after the fact. This helps you catch deviations earlier and avoid rework and scrap.
Certificates without the manual effort
Instead of pulling data together from multiple sources, batch-specific certificates are generated directly from captured digital inspection and production data. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central makes documentation fully traceable — your customers benefit from faster response times, and you get audit-ready records without the extra effort.
IoT Integration: putting shopfloor data to work
- Put data in context: machine and equipment data is clearly assigned to orders and batches.
- Catch deviations early: real-time visibility into processes and machine states gives you an up-to-the-minute view of anomalies.
- Less manual effort: confirmations are now fully digital, replacing manual list-based workflows with no system breaks.
- Build the foundation for Industry 4.0: predictive maintenance scenarios can be planned and implemented with system support.
- Get BI-ready data: create a reliable foundation for analytics and business intelligence solutions in the paints and coatings industry.
Microsoft Azure Cloud: cybersecurity and IP protection for formulas and ongoing operations
- Protect critical know-how: formulas, process parameters, and specifications are secured with targeted access controls.
- Reliable operations through IT and OT convergence: prevent cyberattacks, outages, and tampering with Microsoft's industry-leading cloud technology.
- Clear roles and access controls: only authorized users can access sensitive data and proprietary knowledge.
- Security by design: cloud and IoT solutions with built-in security that are easy to deploy and operate with confidence.
Current awards
6x Microsoft Solutions Partner
Awarded Microsoft's highest partner award in all categories.
Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle
Among the top 1% of partners worldwide every year since 2014.
Top employer
Among the top 0.4% of all employers in Germany.
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