ISO 9001 CERTIFICATION

In today’s increasingly competative market there are base targets that companies have to achieve. Some targets stand out over time as being critical to business success:

• To meet  customer requirements
• To increase efficiency by decreasing costs
• To develop new products and services
• To supply new products and services to market

ISO 9001 is a tool used by organisations to help them to develop and implement their customer focus. The ISO 9001 quality management system standard is intended to be a flexible standard and while generic as intended to be applied to business in all service and production sectors.

  Benefits of ISO 9001 Certification

• Providing an increase in market presence for the company
• Redoubling quality awareness of the employees
• Providing an increased competetive advantage by providing a point of difference from rivals in marketing activities
• Profiting through access to different market segments where quality certification is a national or legal requirement.
• Adopting a customer and process focussed approach
• Providing an increase in customer satisfaction and customer faith
• Decreasing error rates, wastage and reprocessing costs
• Actively carrying out appropriate quality checks at input production and despatch stages
• Through a better understanding of the systematic approach and process approach to production or service provision.
• Providing a system fort he selection, assessment and appraisal of suppliers.
• By providing competence to customers in the company’s ability to manage its system within a quality management system framework
• Standardising business processes through documentation of key processes and activities
• Continual improvement through the analysis of data and statistical measurements and using these as the basis for future improvements.
• By locking in the gains that are made in each time period