A business management system is a must for organisations today through which they can manage their interrelated processes and achieve their defined objectives. It can manage several processes that are related to the vital aspects of business such as quality assurance of products or services, environmental performance, workers’ health and safety, and information security.
Clearly, the level of complexities of your Business Management System (BMS) depends on the context as well as objectives of your organisation. In many cases, when the business is small, the organisations need the BMS just as a system governed by strong leadership. It clearly defines the role of every employee and how they should contribute their efforts in achieving the objectives of the organisation. The BMS of a small business also might not need any comprehensive documentation. On the other hand, a large, complex business or an organisation operating in a regulated sector needs a BMS that is extensively documented and complies with the legal obligations of the sector.
Why does your business need a BMS?
Managing all processes from one single place helps in reducing duplication and boosts overall operational efficiency. In today’s highly competitive landscape, it is essential that you streamline all your crucial operations and manage them effectively to optimise your overhead costs. Some of the key principles on which the BMS is based are management leadership, elimination of inefficiencies, consolidation of tasks, and persistent engagement of employees.
When you have successfully implemented the BMS, your organisation gets a series of advantages. Firstly, it enables you to monitor, plan, and administer your various processes. It enables you to measure the performance of your business. Therefore, you can improve certain processes or put into effect new processes for escalating the performance.
In a nutshell, a well-implemented BMS helps in the growth of your business by simplifying the management of your scaling operations. Therefore, every growing business needs it to ensure simplicity, keep operating costs down, avoid errors or wastes of resources, and encourage employee performance.
Important ISO Standards for a Business Management System
ISO standards provide specific requirements for organisations to support the key areas of their BMS such as quality management, environmental management, or information security. These standards are applicable to any organisation, regardless of their industry type, size, or nature of processes.
Here is a list of the crucial ISO management standards that can be integrated into the Business Management System:
ISO 9001: It is the standard for quality management and meeting its requirements would help your organisation to demonstrate its stringent commitment to maintaining the quality of products or services. An ISO 9001 quality management system is considered to be primarily important for your BMS because it facilitates continuous improvement of processes and aims at increasing customer satisfaction.
ISO 14001: It is the standard for environmental management and its requirements help you to focus and improve your environmental performance. The requirements help you to integrate an efficient environmental management system in your BMS which would aim at reducing wastes, controlling greenhouse emissions, and promoting sustainable use of resources.
ISO 27001: It is the standard for information security management and integrating it ensures that your organisation can protect the confidentiality of various information assets such as customer data, employee details, financial information, information entrusted by stakeholders/third parties, and intellectual property assets.
ISO 45001: It is the occupational health and safety (OHS) management standard which provides the requirements for a framework that aims at minimising workplace risks. Integrating this OHS management standard would help you to enhance the well-being of your workers by reducing occupational risks and creating safer working environments.
Investment to Profit
The investment you make towards achieving ISO certifications like ISO 9001 may assist with winning government contracts and enhance the business management system you already have in place. Your customers will see the distinction between your business ethics and those of competitors. Clients tell us that they have happier staff, a more positive work environment, and very satisfied customers.
More than Just a Certificate
We focus on the actual benefits which the ISO standards will bring to your business more than just gaining a certificate! Our clients are always happy with the positive look and feel of their business by the time our consultant has helped them gain certification.
Professional Development Opportunities
We offer training for your staff in professional conduct according to the ISO standards required for your management system. We are positive and friendly and only want to work with people wanting to improve their professional skills in their work environment.
Heightened Awareness among Employees
Staff and management gain a higher level of awareness into achieving the appropriate ISO management standards and operate with professional competence.
Secure certification
Secure and maintain ISO certification through continual improvement of your management system. Our clients like yourself always get certified the first time – we believe you hold the keys to maintaining your certification. This is not hard to do when the documentation originally built around your own practices are still functioning smoothly.
We, at Compliancehelp are a group of ISO certification experts and hence have the expertise to integrate an ISO management standard or standards to your business management system.
We believe in providing our clients with the best value for their ISO certification investment. As a dedicated ISO consultancy, we make the process of achieving the certification as effortless and cost-efficient as possible.
Tailored Services: We can provide services with flexibility. We tailor-make the implementation process of the ISO standard in accordance with your processes, business objectives, and scope for the management system.
Widespread ISO Standards: We guide businesses on the integration of an extensive range of ISO management standards. Based on your current management system, we can help you determine which standard or standards are required to improve it.
Certification and Maintenance: Our ISO consultants will not just provide you with full assistance for integrating the standard and achieving the ISO certification but also help you in maintaining it. We consistently provide support and conduct internal audits of your management system periodically to maintain its compliance with the ISO standard.
Expert Consultants: Compliancehelp guarantees that highly experienced and trained ISO consultants will be assigned to guide you and make your journey to the certification hassle-free.
Competitive Prices: We help you optimise your investments in the ISO certification process and ensure higher ROI by offering our services at the most reasonable rates. Our service charges always match with the budget expectations of our clients.
To get our assistance for an ISO certification, just give us a call. Our experts will get back to you soon! To find more about a BMS, go through the next section of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
A BMS or Business Management System is a comprehensive framework that can be used by organisations op consolidate, monitor, analyse and improve their activities related to various processes and management functions. In short, it is an important toolset through which organisations can efficiently manage their processes and achieve the defined objectives faster.
A BMS is strengthened by integrating ISO management standards like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and so on. They help organisations to keep quality management, environmental management, occupational safety management or other such management aspects, orderly in their operations.
A Business Process Management System (BPMS) implies an organisation’s approach for improving its every process or activity from end to end after thoroughly analysing it. It is a tool that organisations can use to execute their process management methodology in a planned way. With the ability to monitor every business process with the system, an organisation can introduce improvements in them through modelling, performance evaluation, and automation.
A BMS is different from a BPMS. The BMS is a comprehensive system that operates to manage the key areas, processes, management aspects, products, and even people of the organisation. It helps you to align these with your business goals and objectives. On the other hand, a BPMS is a tool that focuses on refining your integral processes to align your business strategies better with your goals.
The BMS can be of various types depending on the core management aspect or aspects it addresses in your business. Some of the key types of a BMS are a Quality Management System, Environmental Management System, Information Security Management System, Risk Management System, Occupational Health and Safety Management System, Asset Management System, and Energy Management System.
To develop an effective BMS for your organisation that is scalable and ready to be integrated with any ISO standards, follow the given steps:
The responsibility of developing the BMS falls on the shoulders of the owner and managers of the organisation. However, it must be implemented with the participation and cooperation of employees.
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