Big three requirements for ISO 14001
Here is what we are telling folks about the Big Three Requirements:
Ford
•At least one manufacturing site from each production and non-production supplier must be third-party registered by December 31, 2001, and all manufacturing sites shipping products by July 1, 2003
General Motors
•All suppliers must implement an EMS by December 31, 2002 that is third-party certified or self-certified through a written declaration by a responsible executive. Third- party confirmation is strongly preferred.
DaimlerChrysler
•All suppliers must be third-party registered to an EMS based on ISO 14001 by January 1, 2003. The requirements of the EMS do not need to be established independently of the Quality Management System.
Hope it helps. Also, we have used ISO 14K to "find" real dollars in customer operations! In many cases, it more than paid for the effort.