Our company was recently acquired by another. The company name will remain the same, but our President and CEO has changed. Essentially there will be no changes to our scope or Quality Manual at this time. The posted company quality policy and objectives will be reviewed during our next management review and signed off by the "new guy."

My question is, from your experience do you know of any other factors that we should consider with respect to our ISO 9001:2000 certification due to the recent acquisition? Our Quality Manual, Quality Operating Procedures, and appointment of Management Representative were approved by the previous CEO. Do we need to redo these approvals under the new management and send in to our registrar for updating our records?

Thanks in advance.

:2cents: It’s probably no help what so ever but here is a collection of my ramblings:-

- I would review exactly what will be changed firstly and concentrate on that.
For instance your organisational structure document is now incorrect. If you are now part of a group your quality policies and objectives will no doubt soon change (group QM ?). You may find new purchasing directives – suppliers list?

- Start to make the changes at the earliest possible time in draft to be ready for potential sign off.

- Make a point of getting the President / CEO to give you guidance – make a list of the actions required.

- You do not need to send anything to the CB as they do not keep records of your systems or documentation (or they shouldn’t)

- Depending on when your next audit is you might like to directly contact your auditor to update him/her on what to expect and maybe take some direct guidance but if its not to soon then your auditor will see during the next audit what changes have been made.

- Second party audits might be another issue?

Looks like you are going to be busy! Good luck.

I think since your company has changed the top management,who prepare the quality policy and appoint the management representative, you'd better have the files re-signed.
antoher question, it's not necessary to tell anything to CB,because you don't change your QMS.

Follow your document control procedure just as you would have in case there was no management change.

The CB needs to informed only in case there is a change in MR (he is the contact person for the CB) or there is a change in name / address of the company (the certificate issued by the CB shows these details).

A separate audit will be required if the scope of operation of the company changes and it is to be included in the certification.