ISO 2015 Management System Standards Survey - 3% increase in certification!

ISO has released the 2015 Survey report, that provides data on the total certifications to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and other management standards across the world.
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Set of Quality system forms for Purchasing

Control of externally provided processes, products, and services QSP regulates the control of external processes, products and services activities.
The Procedure has recently been updated with the following forms:

• QSF 8.4-01-01 Purchase request
• QSF 8.4-01-02 List of purchases by category
• QSF 8.4-01-03 Potential suppliers list
• QSF 8.4-01-04 Ranked suppliers list
• QSF 8.4-01-05 Approved suppliers list

Continuous improvement of Quality process templates

The following ISO 9001:2015 Documents and Templates were recently updated:
 - QSP 8.2-01 Marketing - Quality system forms added:

• QSF 8.2-01-01 Marketing research program
• QSF 8.2-01-02 Market Research report
• QSF 8.2-01-03 Marketing strategies
• QSF 8.2-01-04 Marketing strategies implementation Instructions

 - QSP 8.2-01 Contract Analysis - Quality system forms added

• QSF 8.2-02-01 Contract(s) to deliver products (services).
• QSF 8.2-02-02-a Disagreements protocol(s)
• QSF 8.2-02-02-b Amendment agreement(s) (if necessary);
• QSF 8.2-02-03 Reconciliation sheet(s).
• QSF 8.5-01-02 Certificate of acceptance/transfer.

'Actions to Address risks and opportunities' QSP has been updated

ISO 9001:2015 QSP 6.1-01 Actions to Address risks and opportunities has been recently updated.

We have added 8 quality system forms relevant to the procedure: same price - more value!

ISO 9001:2015 Audit checklist - questions answered

How and when to use Audit checklist?
We are already certified to ISO 9001:2008 version. Are there any specific ways to utilize the Audit Checklist?
Does ISO 9001:2015 Audit checklist cover ISO 9001:2015 conformance and performance audits?

Find the answers in our new blog post.

Same price - more value. Some of the quality procedures are updated with the QSF templates

We have updated some of our procedures with the Quality System Form templates. See details in the blog post update.

System audit vs. Technical audit

Can we conclude that System audit can/may include Technical audit since technical expert may be required during a System audit (1st, 2nd or 3rd party) as per ISO 19011?
QMS questions answered on our blog