What is ISO 9001?
ISO 9001 is a globally recognised standard for Quality Management that helps businesses streamline their processes and formalise operations for better efficiency and consistency.
This process targets key areas within your organisation, including training, maintenance, and corrective actions. It ensures that any issues are properly assessed so effective solutions can be applied—preventing future problems and avoiding repeat incidents.
ISO 9001 is ideal for any business, in any industry, looking to improve quality management and operate more efficiently. Whether you’re a small startup or a large organisation, this standard helps you streamline your processes and deliver better results.
On average, achieving ISO 9001 certification takes between 6 to 8 months from start to finish, depending on your business size and readiness.
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How can ISO 9001 benefit your organisation?
ISO 9001 is a Quality Management System (QMS) designed to help businesses run smoothly and efficiently. It uses a clear, step-by-step approach to improve how your business works every day. By following ISO 9001, you can manage your processes better, meet customer needs more effectively, and boost performance. It helps you spot risks early, reduce errors, and make smarter decisions. Whether you’re a small business or a large company, ISO 9001 gives you the tools to build trust, increase customer satisfaction, and grow with confidence.
It delivers value to your organisation, your customers, and your team.
- Increase your profits and grow your market share.
- Make the most of your time with smarter resource management.
- Helps you save time and money by fixing many problems for good the first time.
- Save time and money by fixing recurring problems permanently the first time.
- Increase your relationship by quickly acting on customer feedback.
- Problems are spotted and fixed faster, often before the customer even notices.
- Build customer trust by showing you have full control over your operations and activities.
- Increase job security by improving business performance.
- Increase job satisfaction by giving employees clear guidance on what to do and how to do it.
- Improves training to Increase team morale and motivation.
Training
Business Smart Suite provides accredited training to help organisations meet ISO compliance. Our Level 3 Award in Effective Auditing and Inspection teaches individuals how to carry out internal audits confidently and effectively.
As part of our ISO 9001 consultancy package, we offer free training for two delegates. If you want to implement ISO 9001 in-house and train your staff in internal auditing, check out our course page below.
Level 3 Certificate in Effective Auditing and Inspection
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Cost of ISO 9001
Business Smart Suite provides top-quality ISO 9001 certification services at an affordable price.
Typically, implementing ISO 9001 costs between £3,000 and £6,000, which includes certification body audit fees. The process usually takes around 6 to 8 months to complete.
The exact cost depends on factors like the number of employees, your annual turnover, the number of sites, existing documents, and how complex the audits are.
If you’d like to talk about your needs and explore your options, please call us or request a quote below. One of our business development team members will help guide you and recommend the best solution for you.
What our clients say
“Nissan Trading (Europe) Ltd are highly delighted with the service provided by John and his team. Business Smart Suite had a methodical and professional outlook towards the project, this combined with a friendly approach and in depth knowledge of ISO 9001 we achieved certification within six month of our initial application. We would recommend the excellent service provided by Business Smart Suite to any other company.”
“John is a very knowledgeable individual who delivers time and time again. He is excellent communicator and leads from the front. During his time with us he made people feel at ease and always took time to listen. His hands on approach and the ability to sort out any problems by offering good sound advice were respected by all our staff. This proved essential when getting the workforce behind the project.”
“This is how consultants should work. Nothing but praise for the way the project was run and completed. Our paperwork has reduced by at least 50%, but amazingly the Manual & Procedures have more relevant content. We would be happy to be used as a reference and will undoubtedly contact you again when we decide to progress with ISO 14001. Many thanks from all the GSM team”