Maintaining site specific ISO Compliance/Certification within a non-certified organization & centralized processes

[jesrow]

Our division has had a number M & A’s over the last year, which resulted in some restructuring. The organization as a whole is not ISO certified...only a few of the individual sites (mine included). Many of the original processes that were specific to our site are no longer relevant and now managed by more global centralized departments located in other sites across the organization. I'm looking for some insight/guidance on how other organizations may handle these situations, both from an internal auditing standpoint and overall maintenance of our certification.

Hope that makes sense...

 

[malasuerte]

Sounds like you need to go back to step 1 and clause 4.3 and determine the scope of your QMS.

Bottom line, the restructuring doesn't matter. You need to figure out what is in scope or not in scope. If it is the 2 folks sitting alone in an office in Germany, under some arbitrary group name, managing all the training for the company, then you would include them because their activities probably impact the QMS.

So from both the IA and Ext Audits - you will include them - likely require sub changes with your registrar - and they fit right into the audit plans.