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While quality management has long been associated with companies of the West and
countries like Japan, Korea, it is becoming a watch word for companies elsewhere
only relatively recently.
Then, as the need to export arises, many companies are prompted to look at
ISO 9001:2000 accreditations as an important part of their marketing initiative.
An ISO certification gives prospective clients an assurance of the level of
quality management practiced in their supplier's environment.
However,
many are not aware that an ISO process can bring about business process
reengineering. All of a sudden, executives and management are mandated to
document their processes in accordance with the quality policies stated. These
documents need to be routed and approved. There are new forms, new documents,
new procedures at every stage of the production chain etc.
That is not
all. An annual audit to ensure compliance can sometimes result in companies
loosing their certification due to insufficient documentation.
The Sirim
ISO 9001:2000 Document Management System is designed to satisfy the
documentation needs - saving companies hundreds and thousands of valuable man
hours. The system is also equipped with best practices, ready forms and
templates, guidelines, which can be referenced and modified to suit your
organization.
Being a web-based application, it also comes with other
useful functionalities such as project collaboration, search engine, security
control, workflow routing and many more.
The product is endorsed by the
Malaysia Standards Body or Sirim
Berhad .
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