QMS ISO 9001
Improving your ISO 9001 compliance through holistic Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Quality Management strategies.
ISO 9001 QMS Exactly as Your Business Needs IT
Whether your organization is searching for a project-specific QMS solution or a company-wide evaluation of its quality management systems, Abel Solutions focuses on exactly what your business needs—not on pitching you one-size-fits-all solution.
For all of our ISO 9001 QMS solutions, we leverage Microsoft 365 and SharePoint for their powerful versatility and customizability, the foundation that every QMS solution requires.
FAQs About ISO 9001 Quality Management
ISO 9001 quality management is a set of internationally recognized standards for quality control. It supplies a set of specific rules for documenting the processes of production within a company.
Although this quality system allows companies to define their own process, it places a heavy emphasis on strict adherence to that process once it has been established. With these processes concrete, formalized, and well documented, companies can better achieve consistency control for their product.
Strenuous though these requirements may be, businesses that follow them can be certified as ISO-compliant. Having such a distinction is appealing to potential partners—prestigious manufacturers require that their vendors have up-to-date QMS ISO 9001 certifications.
ISO 9001:2015 is the current ISO 9001 standard. It was published in September 2015. ISO 9001:2015 outlines a set of requirements and recommendations to create business processes, policies, and procedures that meet or exceed customer expectations. ISO 9001 can be used by any business, regardless of size and in any industry to create and maintain their quality management systems. It is intended to offer several benefits to companies, such as the ability to:
Consistently produce products or services that exceed customer expectations. This will increase customer satisfaction
Comply with all applicable statutory or regulatory requirements
Use risk assessment to identify opportunities and reduce uncertainty
A QMS ISO 9001 streamlines and automates the quality management system of your company. An ISO 9001 QMS helps organizations identify the processes that need to be measured and sets quality objectives for them. They also need to use the right tools to collect the data. Then, they can analyze the data using statistical techniques to provide actionable insights to improve their quality program. A ISO 9001 QMS implements Plan-Do-Check-Act, which is basically the application of scientific methods to quality control in order to maintain continuous system improvement.
This can be summarized in the following:
Plan: The organization sets objectives, allocates resources, and identifies potential risks and opportunities.
Do: The organization implements the plan-based quality management system.
Check: The organization analyses the outputs and compares them with the expected outputs.
Act: The organization takes corrective action to eliminate deviations and inefficiencies
Seven key principles are identified in the ISO 9001:2015 quality management standard.
Customer: To exceed customer expectations.
Leadership: Set the quality goals and create the consensus to achieve them.
Engagement: All employees at all levels must support the company’s quality goals in order to have any chance of success.
Process: Establish standard and measurable processes to support leadership visions and corporate quality goals.
Quality Improvement: Innovation and responsiveness are two key components of a QMS.
Decision-making: Measurement, evaluation and reporting are essential for quality improvement and the Plan Do-Check-Act cycle.
Relationships: Successful businesses need to manage their relationships and interactions via customer, stakeholder, and supplier management.
QMS strategies that scale with your organization as it evolves.
QMS Consulting Services
For all of our QMS consulting services, we leverage Microsoft 365 for its best-in-class tools to develop solutions that accelerate process efficiencies and standardize compliance measures and reporting.
QMS|share—Our Quality Management Software
QMS|share, our all-in-one ISO 9001 Quality Management software solution built on Sharepoint & Microsoft 365, provides every aspect of compliance your organization needs.
Our ISO 9001 QMS software can be customized exactly as your industry and daily operations require.
ISO 9001 Document Management
By leveraging SharePoint’s powerful search engine, categorizing and keeping track of ISO-related documentation is as simple as tagging and sorting files.
- With proper implementation, using metadata enables searches that easily produce relevant results from thousands of files.
- The ability to separate document libraries by status – e.g. published documents and working documents – better ensures compliance.
- Customizable version controls allow businesses to plot the course of changes to their documentation while maintaining sequential releases of revised documents.
ISO 9001 Process Management
Workflow automation is built into the system to assist you with your compliance needs.
- A dashboard can display documents awaiting approval, keep track of assigned tasks, display user-specific documents, and much more.
- Customizable views can be used to sort documents by file types, departments, job titles, etc.
- Set up alerts on specific files that will send an email to concerned parties when changes are made to important documents or allow you to set expiration dates that trigger a new review to keep your controlled documents up to date.
ISO 9001 Regulatory Compliance
Microsoft SharePoint is itself a program thoroughly compliant with a host of technology standards
- Conforms to standards of CFR Title 21 Part 11, which requires that users can only access documents by using 2 distinct identification methods
- Brings the most thorough list of compliance offerings of any cloud-based service provider: ISO 9001, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018
ISO 9001 Security
SharePoint enables users to maintain rigorous security for all their documents, from the sensitive to the mundane
- Restrict access to certain sites or libraries by granting or denying permission, and set the amount of power available to users by editing their permission levels
- The Microsoft platform adheres to both international and industry compliance standards.
- Administrative users are authenticated through one of two systems: Active Directory on Windows Server 2016 or Azure Active Directory in the cloud
ISO 9001 Workflow & Process Automation
Managing workflows is a painless process in SharePoint, and helps to improve company efficiency.
- Configure workflows to institute an approval process for important documents; major approvals are saved to help maintain audit trails
- Detailed audit trails allow for a thorough overview of a document’s workflow status and the ability to better handle process bottlenecks
- Document history pages allow for assessment of all reviews and approvals for a given file
QMS ISO 9001 Compliance—An Abel Solution
Abel Solutions implements and maintains QMS|share as a robust and versatile solution for users who want to maintain compliance with ISO 9001 standards for their quality management processes. We have over two decades of experience delivering SharePoint-based fixes, building unique applications, and offering complementary IT services to our satisfied clients.
Our ISO 9001 QMS software allows you to produce products and services that exceed customer expectation, satisfy regulatory requirements, and commit to proper risk management.
Not only can we create and maintains all of your organization’s compliance solutions, but we’ll also help deploy these solutions by on-boarding your team, from training management and regular employees to providing ongoing support.
Consider QMS|share your all-in-solution for ISO 9001 quality management systems.
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