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Competitive Advantage: 72.3%
of corporations with ISO 9000 report a major
competitive advantage. This means they are winning
more business. (Source - Dun and Bradstreet Survey)
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Improved Customer Demand:
33.4% of corporations with ISO 9000 report improved
customer demand. This means they are winning more
business. (Source - Dun and Bradstreet Survey)
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Protect Your Business: 69.3%
of surveyed businesses that do not have ISO 9000 say
they have lost a customer bid or proposal to an ISO
9000 certified competitor. Many of these companies
said they didn't know why they were losing the
business until it was too late.
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Your Competitors Are Doing It:
In many industries, 35 to 40% of your competitors are
ISO 9000 certified or in the process. The longer you
wait to start, the greater is their competitive
advantage.
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New Prospects: ISO 9000
certified businesses who always want to do business
with other ISO 9000 Certified or Compliant businesses.
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Easy & Cost Effective:
Getting ISO 9000 is no longer the costly,
time-consuming proposition that it once was. Our ISO
9000 consultancy services not just help your company
to get ISO9000 certification we help to
improve/streamline your process and build the ISO9000
quality system part of you company culture.
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Qualify for Government
Contracts: The construction section, government
departments have all approved the use of ISO 9000 in
contracts and bids.
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Increased Credibility: You
can generate a significant increase in business, as
many corporations will only deal with ISO 9000
Certified or Compliant companies.
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Enhanced Reputation: This
intangible, but valuable, commodity is enhanced
because customers are aware that the Company’s
management has sufficient confidence in the company to
subject it to external assessment, and the company has
succeeded.
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Reduced Unproductive Time:
Any shortage of information, equipment, tools, correct
documentation, materials or skilled manpower can cause
unproductive time and each minute lost is a minute's
cost. For most Companies this cost is both
considerable and unmeasured, although all would
concede that it exists. A small increase in planning
and organization can save a vast amount of
unproductive time during production.
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Reduced Rectification:
Rectification is required when the contract is not
fulfilled correctly. The need for rectification may be
caused by a host of avoidable errors including
ambiguous instructions/ information, incorrect
materials or equipment, poor tools, training
weaknesses, etc. If adequate information is not
available, personnel may guess at the Customer's
requirement, only to find that the guess was not
correct. Result.......rectification. Quality Assurance
aims to achieve the contract requirements First Time,
Every Time. Anything less increases cost as time is
spent on rectification instead of productive,
chargeable work.
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Reduced Warranty Costs:
Warranty work is rectification which is required after
handover to the customer. It is worthy of a special
mention as rectification during warranty costs
substantially more than rectification during the
contract period.
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Reduced Liability: Liability
can result from negligence, product liability and lack
of control. While it is difficult to eradicate direct
negligence or strict liability, it is possible to
improve control and retain good records of contracts
to protect against liability claims. Many aspects of
the Quality Assurance System all contribute to
reducing liability in the future, and may also reduce
insurance premiums in the present.
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Don’t Be Left Behind: On
average it takes 150 to 180 hours to complete all the
required ISO 9000 documents. Realistically, most
businesses spend an average half-hour to one hour per
day on their ISO 9000 system. This means it will take
you six to nine months to complete the entire manual,
(Just like exercise, we know we should do it but other
things always seem to get in the way). Next, the
implementation (practice makes perfect) will normally
take another six to nine months. If you want to be
certified by the end of the year 2000, or at least
compliant, you need to start yesterday.
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