The advantages of implementing ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems (QMS) are:
- Improvement of business performance
- Improvement of business credibility and brand image
- Reduction of costs and management inefficiencies
- Continuous improvement of quality performances
- Reduction of complaints and claims from customers
- Improved feed-back from national and international market
- Improved export by meeting requirements of international customers
- Increased access to public tenders and impoved relationships with institutions
- Reduction of controls and facilities in obtaining administrative authorizations
- Demonstration of a reasonable awareness
- Meeting investors requirements by facilitating access to capital
- Atteinment of more competitive insurance policies
- Improvement of staff relationships
…furthermore…actual quality is not just a matter of documentation