ISO 9001:2000 - Requirements for Control of the QMS Quality Policy

[sal881vw]

Good luck

 

[RCW]

"The documented procedure shall define the method for controlling records that are created and/or retained by suppliers."

I just completed a registration audit for AS9100:2000. We have been recommended for certification. I have 12 CARs to complete by the end of this month. One of the issues that I was written up on was this one.

Currently, I do not control the records at all of our 200 suppliers.

Any help would be appreciated. I am not sure if the standard wants me to definitively control our suppliers records, or merely have a blurp in my QMS that states we do not control our supply base or the records they keep?

I may have an answer, just want to know what everyone else thinks...Thanks in advance

Time to re-open this one seeing it was never properly answered. That and the fact it probably belongs in the AS9100 forum.

I am facing a similar problem in understanding what the AS9100 spec is trying to say, after it was brought to my attention by a coworker.

After thinking about it a while, I read it as meaning two distinctive things. First, control the records created and given to me by my suppliers, such as packing lists, certficates of compliance, lab analysis reports, etc. Second IF there are any offsite records I am having my supplier hold for me, I must keep track of what they have. Therefore to address the latter portion in my quality documentation, if I were to say 'MyCompany does not have its suppliers retain records for them.', that should address the spec properly of the spec.

Any opinions, comments, or suggestions on this one??

 

[Justin]

Time to re-open this one seeing it was never properly answered. That and the fact it probably belongs in the AS9100 forum.

I am facing a similar problem in understanding what the AS9100 spec is trying to say, after it was brought to my attention by a coworker.

After thinking about it a while, I read it as meaning two distinctive things. First, control the records created and given to me by my suppliers, such as packing lists, certficates of compliance, lab analysis reports, etc. Second IF there are any offsite records I am having my supplier hold for me, I must keep track of what they have. Therefore to address the latter portion in my quality documentation, if I were to say 'MyCompany does not have its suppliers retain records for them.', that should address the spec properly of the spec.

Any opinions, comments, or suggestions on this one??

Good answer

The second part, supplier retained records needs a little more clarification.
Here is the quote directly from my QMS, "Where it is contractually required by our customer, records shall be maintained by the supplier based on agreed upon requirements." That will cover control of supplier records. Has always worked for me and I have been through 4 AS audits in the last 2 years.

As a matter of fact, my next final assessment for AS9100 begins tomorrow morning. The next 4 days will be a blast.

 

[amanbhai]

Requirements for control of the quality policy

Actually we don't have the intranet facility what we do is we maintain the quality policy & quality manual with the reference no & etc & maintained a controlled list of these (all documents) with a form mentioning the no. of quality policies distributed to every dept, the issue no, etc with intials of every dept head. So when we see the document control form we know the status of all documents at a glance.When any dept photocopies the document he/she tells us before or incase of change of documents he/she raises document change form.