QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (QMS)

"Is your company ISO Certified ?"  A very common question comes to an organization when it approaches to other organizations to sell its products or services. So, what does ISO Certification mean? Is it mandatory for trading company? And why its very common for organizations to go for ISO Certification? We will try to cover all of these step by step. What  is ISO Certification? ISO certification is a formal approval from a certification body to an organization to confirm that the said organization conforms to the requirements of one or some of the standards developed by International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of various national standards bodies. It develops and publishes international standards. Interestingly, ISO does not perform certification. This is performed by external certification bodies who are accredited to accreditation bodies like ANAB, UAF, UKAS, SAE, SAS etc. to n

In any organization, stores is a physical space where inventories are stored and managed. Almost every organization need space to stock its raw material, spare parts, packaging material, equipment etc. and to use them as and when required.  Stores department carry following responsibilities: Receiving of incoming material Storage and preservation Identification and segregation of material Material issue for production Inventory management Stock replenishment  In order to carry out above mentioned responsibilities, following documents are used by stores department: 1. Procedure for receiving and storage of incoming material: This is a defined and documented methodology which ensure effective receiving and damage free storage of material. This should include methodology for checking and verification of material, packaging, invoices, quantity etc. at incoming stage. This should outline the method for storage of material in stores highlighting storage conditions like temperature & humi

Purchasing refers to procurement of product and services from external providers. These products and services are necessary to run day to day activities and operational control of an organization.  Organization of any size whether small or large need supplies and materials to incorporate them in their final product or to support organizational processes. For effective purchasing function, following documents are used by purchase department: 1. Procedure for approval and evaluation of supplier/service provider :   Supplier/service provider approval and evaluation procedure is a methodology defined by organization to ensure that raw material, services or outsourced processes meet expectation of organization in terms of quality and authenticity.  Procedure should include information of product/services coming under scope of this document, supplier registration review mechanism, supplier audit and approval steps, supplier performance rating mechanism etc. 2. Supplier registration form:   S