Winning the Audit

More and more companies are turning to specific management system standards to help them meet such challenges efficiently and effectively in today’s tough and competitive markets. In today’s business environment, customers demand assurance that their suppliers’ activities are performed correctly and consistently and comply with numerous quality, safety, and regulatory requirements. ISO 9001 is a renowned international quality management standard and rapidly becoming the most popular quality standard in the world. This standard gives you the principles you need to have a solid foundation that can become part of your company culture. Nowadays, most companies prefer to do business only with those companies that are ISO certified. Therefore, ISO certification can help a company open up new markets it had no access to before certification. Within this book, you have access to the unique sequence and method that has been honed, tested, and most important, proven to help many companies get qualified and certified by their customers and third-party auditors.

More and more companies are turning to specific management system standards to help them meet such challenges efficiently and effectively in today’s tough and competitive markets. In today’s business environment, customers demand assurance that their suppliers’ activities are performed correctly and consistently and comply with numerous quality, safety, and regulatory requirements. ISO 9001 is a renowned international quality management standard and rapidly becoming the most popular quality standard in the world. This standard gives you the principles you need to have a solid foundation that can become part of your company culture. Nowadays, most companies prefer to do business only with those companies that are ISO certified. Therefore, ISO certification can help a company open up new markets it had no access to before certification. Within this book, you have access to the unique sequence and method that has been honed, tested, and most important, proven to help many companies get qualified and certified by their customers and third-party auditors.

Monika Nonce Ardianto CQA, CQM, is a certified quality auditor and certified manager of quality / operational excellence. Monika has over 20 years of various experiences in the leadership and supervision of the development and implementation of ISO 9001 quality management system, supplier quality management, the development of quality control plan, managing internal, customer and third party audits, handling customer complaint, project management, product configuration management, document control, laboratory management, manufacturing, and operations in pulp and paper, waste water treatment plant, solvent purification refinery, hi-tech, navigation equipment, and oil industries. Throughout her brilliant professional career in quality assurance and management, Monika has routinely exhibited the passion, vision and dedication necessary to be successful in the business world. She has helped companies in Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, China, Australia and Indonesia improved their quality management system an secured their highly valuable contractual agreement with their clients. During her collegiate career, she earned a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering in 1991 from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia. Monika is a senior member of the American Society for Quality and has been accepted into the prestigious ranks and VIP member of Stanford Who’s Who as a result of her magnificent work in the manufacturing industry.