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With more than one million certificates issued annually to organisations in 189 countries, ISO 9001 is the globally recognised standard for quality management.
ISO has published over 25,000+ standards covering a wide range or products, services and topics.
ISO Management Standards Certification & Solvyris Badge FAQ’s
What’s Included in the Solvyris Solvy-Simple All-Inclusive Offerings?
Our Solvy-Simple offerings cover all your needs, starting with consultancy provided by Solvyris, and certification that is carried out by a third party accredited certification body. We cover everything required from A-to-Z, including the preparation of documents, certification, and annual renewal.
What are the steps of the ISO certification service?
The service delivery for ISO certification has three steps :
– setting up / documenting your ISO management system;
– getting your ISO system externally audited for certification;
– awarding you the “Solvyris Excellent Service” badge;
What makes the copyrighted Solvy-Simple method unique?
Thanks to decades of experience, we have an appreciation of the application of ISO standards to processes and issues across different sectors. Our Solvy-Simple method will help your organisation save time, money, and resources, and get you the ISO certificates that are recognised internationally. Solvyris “Solvy-Simple Method for Certification & Compliance” is copyrighted at the American Library of Congress.
Our Solvy-Simple method exceeds just getting you ready for certification, creation and customisation of the documented manual, and enabling you to successfully pass the certification audit. We transfer the know-how in an easy to grasp manner, and enable your compliance for years to come. This method streamlines certification from beginning to end.
Can you help us with ongoing compliance after we get ISO certified?
Of course! We’d be glad to help you maintain your ISO conformance and certification. We’d free up your resources, cut your costs, and save you time to focus on what you do best. When it comes to the annual re-certification audit, we will provide you with all the updates needed to pass the audit, and get your renewed ISO certificate.
How can we earn the Solvyris “Excellent Service Certified” verification badge?
Once ISO certified, you can earn the Solvyris “Excellent Service Certified” verification badge. We’d send a survey regarding your customer service approach, and upon completion you’d be granted the badge and listed as a certified entity.
We’ve got you covered through the whole ISO certification cycle
Consultancy
We prepare your organisation to get certified over a few Zoom calls and emails with your key people.
Certification
We connect you over Zoom with a fully accredited certification body, to get you certified.
Ongoing Compliance
We help you with the annual renewal required to keep your ISO cerification valid.
How much does it cost?
Our total cost includes everything required to get you the ISO certification(s) + Solvyris “Excellent Service” verification. It includes our setup fee, in addition to the ISO certification fee which is charged by one of our trusted and accredited external certifying bodies; you make only one all-inclusive payment to Solvyris directly.
Our prices substantially save you money compared to other offers on the local market, thanks to our simplified approach that is light on time and effort. Please request a free quote to get your specific pricing.
How long does it take?
As a guideline, when it comes to ISO standards for an SME, it can take anywhere between one month to three month’s to get the management system setup, applied, and the entity audited and certified. The process would be 100% online.
Please request a free quote to get your specific duration.
Benefits of Getting ISO Certified
Grow the bottom line & improve financial performance
A standarised management system translates into a financial advantage in a competitive marketplace. Certification tells clients, stakeholders and vendors, that you’re the best. ISO standards are proven to enhance financial performance across the board.
Get to know the organizational strengths & opportunities
Your ISO analysis and Solvyris surveys – part of your certification process – gives you an in-depth analysis of your company processes strengths and opportunities. Uncover what is causing clients to leave and improve their retention.
Attract top talent & increase employee engagement
It is easier to recruit new employees when you have been ISO certified. Retention is better at high-trusted organizations that exudes confidence around their brand.
Grow the brand and earn international recognition
Brand yourself as a company that cares and wins customers’ attention and loyalty. ISO certification gives you the marketing resources to build brand recognition to drive real business results. ISO certified companies always rank better when it comes to how they are perceived and the instant trust they gain.
Improve customer satisfaction & recognition
Put your customers first, making sure you consistently meet their needs and enhance their satisfaction and loyalty. This leads to better complaint handling, current customers retention, new clients, and increased business.
Fill the sales pipeline & increase revenue
Earning ISO Certifications proves you’ve created an amazing customer experience and elevates your status as an entity of choice. Get Certified and get more high-paying clients and increase your offer acceptance rate.
Increase Innovation & achieve more
Companies that adopt innovation in their culture generate more high-quality ideas, realize greater speed in implementation, and achieve better results.
Increase processes efficiency & ROI
Work in a more efficient way as all your processes will be aligned and understood by everyone in the business. This increases productivity and efficiency, improves the supply chain quality, and brings costs down. Continually improve your processes to add value to everyone involved.
Streamline & scale up operations
Standards streamline the processes of a company, by reducing the time needed to perform specific activities in the various business functions, decreasing waste, reducing procurement costs and increasing productivity. They allow companies to expand their suppliers’ network, and introduce and manage new product lines effectively.
Know what’s working & apply it
ISO standards are the distilled wisdom of people with expertise in their subject matter and who know the needs of the organisations they represent. Your entity would get the chance to thrive by applying such wisdom and reap its benefits.
Create & enter new markets
Standards are used as the basis for developing new products, penetrating new markets (both domestic and export), supporting the market uptake of products, and even creating markets. They are now prerequisites of getting onto supplier and vendor lists, as well as being accepted to participate in official tenders.
What about certificates accreditation?
We only partner with officially accredited certifying bodies- with Schemes Endorsed by the ISO Organisation.
International Organisation for Standardization (ISO)
ISO is a network of national standards bodies in 170 countries, founded in 1947 in Switzerland. It publishes ISO 9001:2015 and more than 25,000 other standards.
ISO takes steps to ensure the credibility of certification globally.
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International Accreditation Forum (IAF)
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) is a worldwide association of accreditation bodies and other bodies interested in conformity assessment.
Its primary function is to develop a single worldwide program of conformity assessment, which reduces risk for businesses and their customers by assuring them that accredited certificates and validation and verification statements may be relied upon.
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ISO Guidance Standards FAQ’s
What’s the difference between certifying ISO management standards & ISO guidance standards?
ISO is a famous name for some standards known as “management systems standards”. ISO 9001:2015, the most renowned, is the Quality Management Systems standard with over 1,250,000 certificates issued in 2023. The total number of ISO management systems standards is very limited; there are around only 50 of them (view the complete list here). These get ISO certificates.
It is lesser known that ISO has published 31,500+ standards! Over 99.9% of ISO published standards are called “guidance standards”. Guidance standards are best practice guidelines that can boost performance across many sectors. These standards cover almost everything under the sun; for example ISO 8601-1:2019 states how dates and times should be formatted. You can use official ISO search engine at this link to discover all of those standards. These get ISO Letter of Compliance / Conformance.
Who is the issuer of the ISO Letter of Conformance / Compliance?
We only work with accredited certifying bodies, to issue your entity a Letter of Conformance / Compliance. This lends you the credibility of their status and their expertise as third-party impartial auditors.
Online Training FAQ’s
What’s the mode of training?
Three modes of training are available at different prices; the first mode is online training: either self-study courses using the text material, or live courses over Zoom, or a combination of both.
What’s the duration of training?
Lead auditor courses, as a standard, are 40-hour courses (partially self-study and partially presented live online over Zoom).
What’s the course content and goals?
The following general goals are meant to be met by a lead auditor course, it would get you to the point where you would:
– Be able to explain the purpose and business benefits of the management standard studied.
– Identify the proper application of the management standard.
– Understand how to perform a management system audit of the standard.
– Be able to explain the role of an auditor and how to plan, conduct, report, and follow up on a management system audit, in accordance with ISO 19011.
– Learn how to plan, carry out, report, and follow up on a third-party audit of the management standard to determine its compliance (or lack thereof) with ISO 19011.
What’s the format and requirements of the exam?
The exam is an open-book exam; sent as a Word file. The passing grade is 70%. Re-sits are available for once.
What’s the required documentation to enroll?
Candidates are required to submit an updated resume, personal picture, and a copy of their ID and their highest attained educational degree.
What’s the cost to enroll and payment terms?
The price for lead auditor online courses varies per ISO standard; they start from $600 USD (paid in CAD$, AUS$, GBP£ or USD$). For all courses, payment is in full for the self-study mode, while 50% is paid in advance during reservation for online live courses over Zoom. The remaining amount should be paid no later than 2 weeks in advance of the course start date. Payment can be carried out securely online via Stripe (our payment processor), or via an international bank transfer to our banks account at Canada, Australia, the UK, or the USA.
What about training accreditation?
We only partner with officially accredited certifying bodies and training entities.
Training Material & Certificates are accredited by the IPC, issued in cooperation by MLK & Auditor Qualification Association (AQA). Auditor Qualification Association (AQA) is a member of IPC.
International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) & International Accreditation Forum (IAF)
ISO is a network of national standards bodies in 170 countries, founded in 1947 in Switzerland. It publishes more than 25,000 other standards. ISO takes steps to ensure the credibility of certification with IAF.
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