Monday 28 April 2014

Achieving ISO 9000 Certification

By George Beacon


ISO 9000, a popular business standard, identifies the minimum requirements for a company's Quality Management System. A QMS is a system for sustaining a constant level of customer satisfaction and includes a company's internal requirements, procedures, and policies. ISO 9000 covers the following areas:

employee training and hiring, development and design of products or services, internal quality audits, selecting and control over vendors, monitoring and measuring, management accountability, and corrective and precautionary action.



To accomplish an ISO 9000 certification you must look into several options for preparing for the certification and providing the certification. In order to complete the certification the best way possible, you must initially know something about the different companies that provide various products and services.

One decision you will need to make is what registrar (auditing firm) you would use. Another is how much and what type of assistance you would require to get prepared.

ISO 9000 consulting, ISO 9000 training, templates, software and documentation are amongst the options. You may want to consider which, if any, of these kinds of support will be needed by your company. You also have to make certain that the knowledge and qualifications of the companies which provide the services and products meet your needs.

How to know what you require?

If you need support in preparing for the certification, you can consult with ISO 9000. When it comes to getting a certification and how to benefit most in the business, you will be helped by experienced consultants who have worked with various businesses within various industries. Good consultants can easily pay for themselves from the time savings of your staff and guidance they provide to achieve better business outcome for you and your customers. Using a consultant is optional, but can be helpful if your company has little or no experience with ISO 9000 and/or you have few people-resources to dedicate to the project.

One of the more respectable companies in the marketplace of ISO 9000 consulting, is Core Business Solutions, a family owned company focusing on the requirements of small enterprises.




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