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The requirement for 9.3.1 is:
Top management shall review the organization's QMS at a planned interval to ensure its continuing
•suitability
•adequacy
•effectiveness and
•alignment with the strategic direction of the organization.
What defines Top management? Through a merger we recently became a global company with HQ in Germany. Under the old management, the review was handled at Regional level, with the Regional leaders present.
With the new management, they seem to be wanting to push things like this down to the local level. Which means that I'll be calling a review with the local managers for other functions, rather than regional. The merged company doesn't seem to want Regional leaders of some functions. For example the position of Regional Quality Manager is now redundant.
Any thought on how this might play out when we go for the upgrade to 2015 certification? Any other thoughts?
** NOTE: We are certified still at a regional level, which I think may be relevant. There are plans to chase down global certification at a future date.
Top management shall review the organization's QMS at a planned interval to ensure its continuing
•suitability
•adequacy
•effectiveness and
•alignment with the strategic direction of the organization.
What defines Top management? Through a merger we recently became a global company with HQ in Germany. Under the old management, the review was handled at Regional level, with the Regional leaders present.
With the new management, they seem to be wanting to push things like this down to the local level. Which means that I'll be calling a review with the local managers for other functions, rather than regional. The merged company doesn't seem to want Regional leaders of some functions. For example the position of Regional Quality Manager is now redundant.
Any thought on how this might play out when we go for the upgrade to 2015 certification? Any other thoughts?
** NOTE: We are certified still at a regional level, which I think may be relevant. There are plans to chase down global certification at a future date.
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