Sometimes you need more than a system. You need experienced judgment.
QMS Made Real™ is designed to help manufacturers perform much of the implementation work themselves. But there are moments when a leadership team or QMS lead may benefit from experienced outside perspective.
WICHPER Advisory provides focused support for organizations that need help thinking through an important quality-system or operational challenge.
The objective is to strengthen your organization's ability to operate its own system.
WICHPER's advisory philosophy is not built around creating permanent consultant dependency.
The role of advisory support is to help leadership and implementation teams clarify problems, evaluate options, establish priorities and make stronger decisions - while ownership remains inside the organization.
Six situations advisory support is built for.
QMS implementation direction
You have committed to building or strengthening a QMS but need experienced perspective on where to begin, how to structure the effort or how to move through a difficult implementation stage.
QMS maturity and implementation review
You have made progress but want an independent practitioner perspective on the maturity of the system, significant implementation weaknesses and areas that deserve greater attention.
Process and operational clarity
Important processes, responsibilities, controls or handoffs are unclear or inconsistently managed, and you need help turning operational reality into a practical management approach.
Corrective action and recurring problems
Problems continue to return despite corrective actions, or the organization needs to strengthen how it identifies causes, assigns actions and verifies effectiveness.
Management-system effectiveness
The organization has a QMS, but leadership is questioning whether it is actually helping the business or has become overly administrative.
Certification preparation
The organization is approaching certification and wants experienced support evaluating implementation maturity and remaining preparation priorities.
Advisory should have a clear purpose.
WICHPER does not begin by selling a predetermined consulting package. The starting point is the business situation:
From there, the appropriate level of support can be determined.
Start with the Scorecard, or start the conversation.
If you are still trying to understand the maturity of your current QMS practices, start with the QMS Readiness & Maturity Scorecard™. If you already know the challenge and want to discuss it, contact WICHPER.