WICHPER provides practical information, educational resources, implementation tools and advisory support related to Quality Management Systems, operational excellence and organizational improvement.
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WICHPER is not a certification body and does not issue ISO 9001 certification.
Use of WICHPER resources, QMS Made Real™, the QMS Readiness & Maturity Scorecard™, advisory services or other WICHPER materials does not guarantee that an organization will achieve or maintain certification.
Certification decisions are made independently by the applicable certification body.
The QMS Readiness & Maturity Scorecard™ is an implementation-readiness diagnostic.
It is not an ISO 9001 audit, conformity determination or certification assessment, and a particular score does not guarantee certification.
The Scorecard evaluates selected organizational practices and implementation capabilities based on responses supplied by the user. It should not be interpreted as confirmation that an organization meets every applicable requirement of ISO 9001 or any other standard.
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A Quality Management System is an operating system for an organization, not simply a collection of documents.
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