ISO 9001 is the world’s most popular quality management system standard which is being used widely across different industries and across organizations of different types. Organizations need to register with a certification body so that they can be audited for certification.
Often organizations are puzzled with this typical question “How to get ISO certification”. ISO certification process steps are a typical sequence of activities/milestones. It starts with an introductory training on Quality Management System/ ISO 9001 to the key personnel, which is followed by Gap analysis of current systems with the requirements of ISO 9001. Subsequently, the development/up gradation of Quality Management system (Procedures, Policy, checklists, templates, guidelines) is taken up. Post development of the Quality Management system, employees across the organization is trained on the ISO 9001 standard as well as the Quality Management system of the organization. Deployment of the Quality Management system follows the training.
Typically, deployment includes handholding of the employees, answering their queries and developing sample documents. After deployment, internal audits are conducted across the organization to verify the deployment and check the compliance. The results of the internal audit and other inputs required for Management review are collated and a Management review is conducted. After completion of this cycle, external audit is conducted, typically in two stages. While the Quality Management system documentation is verified in the first stage, its deployment is verified across the organization in the second stage. Successful completion of the audit entitles the organization to ISO 9001 certification.
Quality Management system software automate the entire process of the ISO 9001 certification journey, thereby providing significant cost and time advantage. A professional and ISO 9001 compliant Quality Management is pre built into the Quality Management system software packages. Typically, each of the requirements of ISO 9001 is addressed as different modules/features of the Quality Management system software. Most of the Quality Management system software is workflow based and is hosted on servers (web based).
Effivity is one such Quality Management software which is being used by variety of organizations across the world. Effivity provides a significant edge in your organization’s ISO certification journey by significantly reducing the time and cost. By providing a proven and accepted Quality Management system, Effivity makes your ISO 9001 certification journey simple, easy and quick. The time and cost spent on ISO 9001 standard training, Quality management system definition, QMS training, deployment, internal audits, and Management review and document control are significantly reduced by using Effivity. Effivity can be used in any organization irrespective of the industry and size. I.e. Effivity is deployable in a variety of industries, IT, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial services, Automobile, Medical to name a few.
Also, Effivity suits all organizations be it small, medium or big. Being a web based application; Effivity provides an instant head-on to your organization in its ISO 9001 journey by deploying ISO 9001:2015 compliant Quality Management systems across every desktop/employee of your organization, within minutes. The automated workflows and the well defined procedures ensure that your organization is automatically compliant to the Quality management system procedures, thereby ensuring a successful certification audit and the certificate in your hand. The competent and responsive support team of Effivity guide you through the entire ISO 9001 certification journey, be it application support or otherwise. The icing on the cake is that Effivity is compliant to ISO 9001:2015 which is the latest version.