ISO 9001 is a world renowned Quality Management system standard. ISO 9001 standard defines the requirements for Quality management system of organizations. By complying with the requirements of ISO 9001, organizations strengthen their processes, thereby achieving higher efficiency and customer satisfaction. Quality Management system defines the way in which ISO 9001 standard will be deployed in the organization. While the ISO 9001 standard is same for all organizations, the Quality Management system is specific to the organization which deploys ISO 9001. Quality Management system is practically a collection of Quality Policy, Quality system procedures, checklists, templates, formats. Typically, organizations prepare their own checklist towards the certification journey of ISO 9001. This checklist covers the list of activities to be completed for achieving a successful certification. Typically, this checklist covers the important milestones, deliverables, documents and records to be made ready.
The journey of ISO 9001 certification has typically been a manual exercise with Quality Management system documents being prepared by QMS consultants, followed by training and deployment. With improvement in technology, the use of web based applications for QMS has increased. The QMS software packages offer a readymade Quality Management system which is suitable for any type and size of organization. All the requirements of ISO 9001 are addressed in the software package. Also, this package facilitates the deployment of Quality Management system on a day today basis. A major advantage of such packages is the speed at which it takes the QMS across the employees of the organization.
Effivity is well known Quality Management system software which facilitates the QMS definition and deployment, based on ISO 9001:2015. As organizations develop their own ISO 9001 requirement checklist or look out for standard checklists, Effivity ensures that all the points of these checklists are automatically addressed by the organization. The key documentation requirements, the typical expectations of the audit, the key compliance requirements, and the mandatory records are some of the major points in any ISO 9001 requirement checklists. By deploying Effivity, these requirements are automatically addressed. The organizations are relieved of the pressure to develop, maintain and track any such checklist. Moreover, the pace at which these milestones are met is high thus saving time, effort and cost for the organization.
The major modules of Effivity are Internal Audit, Management Review, HR, Purchase, Design & Development, Operations, Marketing, Internal Audit, Non Conformance, Management Review, Risks and Opportunities, ‘Context of the Organization’, Documented information and Data analysis. These modules have been designed such that the requirements of ISO 9001are translated towards the organization’s day to day operations. The biggest advantage that Effivity offers is the tight integration of these modules (business processes) so as to derive maximum benefit from ISO 9001 deployment. Since Effivity encapsulates each and every requirement of ISO 9001, it eliminates the need for any specific checklist in the certification journey. As Effivity has been built based on the experience of seasoned quality management professionals, it automatically ensures that the requirements of ISO 9001 are seamless deployed in your organization.