ISO – The International Organization for Standardization
Driving ISO initiatives with Business Process Management (BPM) creates far-reaching value for your organization, going beyond the ISO audit certification. While ISO standards are extremely useful to organizations, some of the standards lack a comprehensive outlook of the needs of modern businesses. Beyond a standard designed to facilitate international trade, ISO certification provides value in the form of marketing appeal and by fulfilling customer requirements. In order to achieve optimal business practices that will maximize your ROI, industry best practices provide ISO’s missing components.
Understanding ISO: Definition
ISO Standards are documents which provide guidelines, requirements and specifications to ensure products, processes and services fit their purpose. Economic uncertainty has forced companies to find ways to become more efficient in order to maintain profitability and be globally competitive. Formal performance improvement programs like ISO 9000 help to improve quality and operational efficiency, granting your company a competitive edge.
ISO 9001
International standard that specifies requirements for a QMS. It is the most popular standard in the ISO 9000 series and the only standard in the series to which organizations can certify.
First published in 1987 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The current version of ISO 9001 was released in September 2015.
ISO 13485
ISO 14000
ISO 20000
ISO 27000
The ISO 27000 international series of standards is the leading measurement metric for Security techniques as they relate to Information Security Management Systems. It is composed of a combination of policies and processes for organizations to form a framework to protect their information through the adoption of an Information Security Management System (ISMS). ISO 27001 is the most referenced standard in this series for certification.
ISO 27001 Cloud-solution
As part of our ongoing commitment to compliance and ensuring that our clients meet their regulatory requirements, we are always on the lookout for ways to help our clients attain and maintain full compliance. Interfacing is ISO 27001 certified and we are partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud-hosting since their commitment to compliance is proven, with global data centers compliance to SOC 1 Type II and ISO 27001. For more information on AWS compliance for ISO 18345, FDA QSR and GxP, please refer to their compliance program.
Electronic Quality Management System (eQMS) & ISO
Interfacing is here to assist you with the always evolving changes to compliance requirements that need to be addressed immediately. We lead the way to corporate transparency with our easy to deploy and comprehensive digital Integrated Management System (IMS) solutions for all your compliance, risk and process management needs.
Customer Focus
IMS allows business users to define and share your organization’s governing policies, so as to ensure compliance. By automatically applying these policies to the related processes, IMS takes care of compliance for you.
Leadership
IMS standardizes processes to meet compliance with corporate and regulatory policies, eliminating many of the errors created by manual compliance solutions. By automating the processes and providing appropriate reporting and tracking, errors can be avoided, resulting in significant cost savings.
Engagement of People
Complete audit trails that allow you to track all processes and changes can be extracted and reported – a vital component for managing change and ensuring process compliance to standards and regulations. This improved visibility allows you to identify and correct weaknesses with ease.
Process Approach
IMS streamlines processes and their development and allows for their fully integrated end-to-end management. Our solution helps you cut through the clutter and maximize the effectiveness of your processes every time.
Improvement
IMS lets you streamline and automate your compliance initiatives, including reporting and executing change, which lowers the soft and hard costs of compliance and risk management.
Evidence Based Decision Making
One example is better control awareness on how gaps and faulty assumptions suddenly come to light through implementation of SOX compliance procedures. Inadequate controls are quickly identified as complex manual processes are automated through implementation of newer, more accurate workflows.
Relationship Management
IMS lets you streamline and automate your compliance initiatives, including reporting and executing change, which lowers the soft and hard costs of compliance and risk management.
Understanding BPM for ISO
Creates far-reaching value
Fulfill customer requirements
Maximize your ROI
Create Consistency & Transparency
Continuous Improvement Management
Process Optimization
Understanding ISO compliance with Enterprise Process Center® (EPC)
We understand that the requirements placed on organizations in terms of compliance are very high and that ISO 9000, ISO 13845, ISO 14000, ISO 20000, ISO 27000, is an essential part of that program. By using our customized solutions, your company gains the accountability and consistency that will give you a cutting edge over your competition. Our tools ensure full visibility from end-to-end, all the way from the creation and amendment of a regulation to the approval and revision of the content through to the update and retraining of employees for standard operating procedures (SOPs). We see the full lifecycle management as moving parts of a complete ecosystem and that’s why are unique approach that combines information security, regulatory requirements, documents, processes, work instructions, and governance.
Conduct Impact Analysis
Analyze your records for downstream impacts, and analyze the potential impacts on policies, SOPs, business units and related records.
Manage Content
Manage the individual pieces of information, assign owners, and ensure governance through approval cycles, and change requests.
Digital Signature
We fully support digital signature to ensure that the audit trail of all content is secure, time-stamped, with accurate and complete copies of records available for inspection throughout the retention period.
Ensure Transparency
Approval and Governance Workflow
Digital SOPs
Encourage Collaboration
How Interfacing can help
The EPC is the most user-friendly way to implement a process management system that meets ISO regulations, while providing a full audit trail and robust reporting features. Out of the box best practice frameworks allow you to easily and effectively model your business processes based on proven standards. The EPC ensures transparency for audits and accreditation, complements your other organizational goals and initiatives, and allows you to adapt your processes for the future. In addition, EPC’s process management capabilities allow you to constantly maintain your ISO certification. Often companies gain ISO certification but future audits reveal that the requirements have not been upheld. Easily maintain your ISO certification and take the headache out of ISO audits with the Enterprise Process Center.
Our software allows you to:
- Document processes to meet ISO regulations.
- Manage controls and standards.
- Improve operational efficiency.
- Engage your employees in process lifecycle.
- Increase ownership and transparency.
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Why Interfacing?
Life Science & Pharmaceutical
By adopting a strong, process-centric culture, your company can smoothly transition from chaotic and ad hoc management systems to a smooth running regulatory compliant operation.
Medical Device Technology QMS
Every aspect of the medical technology process must be controlled and monitored as per ISO 13845 and US FDA QSR requirements. Read more here.
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Discover how your organization benefits from an Interfacing solution supporting ISO compliance.
A key differentiator of Interfacing to other digital and business transformation consulting firms is that Interfacing offers its own innovative technology solution in support of transformation programs. Interfacing’s ISO supported solutions deliver the transparency required to reduce complexity, improve execution and facilitates agility and change.
Interfacing’s integrated management system solution is a one-stop-shop for managing transformation programs. We know it’s a very competitive environment out there. It is for that reason our strength is in our commitment to maintain flexibility throughout the project lifecycle whether it is in our innovative products or in our team of experts.
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