Anand Management Solutions

Borivali West, Mumbai, Maharashtra

We are providing iso certification, ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems QMS QUALITY MANAGEMENT--- Just a new buzzword? Or An Indispensable Necessity? The changing global scenario and cutthroat competition, as regards world-class business, has made Quality, a key word for success. Furthermore, the unification of the European market has, in its wake, brought the demand for demonstrable quality in both, product and service, by the exporting countries. Not only that, even the new age consumer has started demanding better & consistent quality of products. Due to the open buyers market, the consumers have more options available to them, for selecting quality products at competitive prices. The only way out to bring down the cost and to generate more yields, with competitive quality products, is to adopt a system-based approach. To lead and operate an organization successfully, it is necessary to direct and control it in a systematic and transparent manner. Success can result from implementing and maintaining a management system that is designed to continually improve performance while addressing the needs of all interested parties. This situation has led to the introduction & adoption of ISO -9000 Quality Management Standards. ISO 9000 quality systems provide all such inputs to work towards the "management by objectives", rather than "management of crisis". It is said, "Let us perfect the system, the product will take care of itself". The quality management system approach encourages the organization to analyse customer requirements, define the processes that contribute to the achievement of a product, which is acceptable to the customer, and keep these processes under control. A quality management system can provide the framework for continual improvement to increase the probability of enhancing customer satisfaction. It provides confidence to the organization and its customers that it is able to provide products that consistently fulfill requirements. There has been a huge shift in focus, from assessment of product, to the assessment of system, processes and methods, which includes the inter departmental co-operation and hence, the emphasis is on controlling the process rather than the product. This change automatically calls for quality assurance, not only in manufacturing, but also in the allied functions like sourcing, marketing, training, handling, documents and very importantly, the communication within the organization i.e. MIS, and communications with the customers. It has therefore become imperative for a company to adopt & implement ISO 9000 quality standards to sustain itself, in this new era, which only obeys the law of the survival of the fittest. We, here at Anand Management Solutions, will help you to do just that.

SA 8000 Social Accountability Social Accountability 8000 (SA-8000) has been developed by Social Accountability International (SAI), known until recently as the Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency. SAI is a non-profit affiliate of the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP). SA-8000 is promoted as a voluntary, universal standard for companies interested in auditing and certifying labour practices in their facilities and those of their suppliers and vendors. It is designed for independent third party certification. SA-8000 is based on the principles of international human rights norms as described in International Labor Organization conventions, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It measures the performance of companies in eight key areas: child labour, forced labour, health and safety, free association and collective bargaining, discrimination, disciplinary practices, working hours and compensation. SA-8000 also provides for a social accountability management system to demonstrate ongoing conformance with the standard. Certification to SA8000: Companies that operate production facilities can seek to have individual facilities certified to SA8000 through audits by one of the accredited certification bodies. Since the SA8000 system became fully operational in , there are certified facilities in 30 countries on five continents and across 22 industries. Benefits of SA8000 Along with humane workplaces, the implementation of SA8000 offers more benefits to workers, companies and others:

ISO 14000 Environment Management Systems EMS Organizations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound environment performance. This international standard specifies requirement for an environment management system to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy and objective, which take into account legal requirements and information about significant environmental aspects. It is intended to apply to all types and sizes of organization and to accommodate diverse geological, cultural and social conditions. The implementation of an environment management system specified by ISO: 14001 EMS is intended to result in improved environment performance. Therefore the ISO: 14001 EMS is based on the premise that the organization will periodically review and evaluate its environment management systems to identify opportunities for improvement and implementation. The rate, extent and time scale of this continual improvement process are determined by the organization in the light of economic and other circumstances. This ISO: 14001 EMS require an organization to 1. Establish an appropriate environment policy. 2. Identify the environment aspects arising from the organization past, existing or planned activities, products and services, in order to determine the environment impacts of significance. 3. Identify applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes. 4. Identify priorities and set appropriate environment objectives and targets. 5. Establish a structure and a programme to implement the policy and achieve objectives and meet targets 6. Facilitate planning, control, monitoring, preventive and corrective actions, auditing and review activities to ensure both that the policy is complied with and that environment management systems remains appropriate, and 7. Be capable of adapting to changing circumstances.

OHSAS 18000 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems OHSAS 18001 is in response to customer demand for recognizable occupational health and safety management system standard against which their management systems can be assessed and certified. Organizations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound occupational health and safety (OH&S) performance by controlling their risks. It has been developed to compatible with the ISO9001 QMS (Quality Management Systems) and ISO14001 EMS (Environmental Management systems). The OHSAS specification is applicable to any organization that wishes to, • Eliminate or minimize risk to employees and other interested parties who are likely be exposed to OH&S risks associated with its activities. • Implement, maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system; • Seek certification/registration of its OH&S management system by an external organization; or • Make a self-determination and declaration of conformance with this OHSAS Specifications

bsci (business social compliance initiative) the bsci is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in brussels. it was launched more than five years ago at a time of intense exchange on how to achieve convergence in the field of corporate social responsibility. the bsci is a participatory platform of businesses where all members are invited to play an active role to further develop the bsci system and its services. BSCI offers companies a common social management system to improve working conditions in supply chains worldwide. The BSCI members implement the BSCI Code concretely through a combination of external monitoring and collaborative capacity building activities that ensure sustainable improvement in labour practices. System is regulated by the BSCI Code of Conduct. The BSCI Code of Conduct is based on the most important international Conventions protecting the workers’ rights such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions and other important Declarations of the United Nations, the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises and the UN Global Compact. Our Code includes the ten following key elements to improve the worker´s situation: • freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are respected • no discrimination is practiced • child labour is prohibited • legal minimum and/or industry standards wages are paid • working hours are compliant with national laws and do not exceed 48 hours regular + 12 hours overtime • there is no forced labour and disciplinary measures • the workplace is safe and healthy • the environment is respected • there is a policy for social accountability • there is an anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy The members are requested to adopt and disseminate the BSCI Code of Conduct both internally and in their supply chain to inform employees and suppliers about the company’s dedication to social compliance and the BSCI development approach. This step ensures that all parties in the company and its supply chain are informed about their responsibility in the process. In doing so BSCI Members express their wish to do business with suppliers who take social responsibility seriously.

ETI (Sedex ) Sedex, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, is a membership organization for businesses committed to continuous improvement of the ethical performance of their supply chains. Companies join Sedex in order to • Use the Sedex web-based system • Participate in Sedex governance • Participate in working groups • Network and engage with other Sedex members • Utilize Sedex value-added services Sedex is a not-for-profit organization based in London, UK, open for membership to any company anywhere in the world. Sedex continues to grow, adding new member companies from around the world, and improving the system and services that we offer. Sedex - the Suppliers Ethical Data Exchange - uses the latest technology to enable companies to maintain and share data on labour practices in the supply chain. Sedex is a secure, web-based system for companies to input data on labour standards at their production sites. The Sedex system has been designed to allow companies who are in an existing trading relationship to share this information, saving time and money lost in duplicated information. As a result, companies are better able to drive and demonstrate improvements. The development of Sedex has been supported by a group of UK retailers and suppliers, including Geest, Marks & Spencer, Northern Foods, RHM, Sainsburys, Tesco, Uniq and Waitrose What is Ethical Trade? “Ethical trade” means different things to different people. In particular, some people refer to “ethical trade” as an umbrella term for all types of business practices that promote more socially and/or environmentally responsible trade. Others use the term in a much narrower sense, referring specifically to the labour practices in a company’s supply chain. For ETI, and throughout this Website, we use the term “ethical trade” in the narrower sense. For us, ethical trade – or ethical sourcing – means the assumption of responsibility by a company for the labour and human rights practices within its supply chain.

C-TPAT Customs Trade Protection against Terrorism C-TPAT (Customs - Trade Protection against Terrorism) is a voluntary US government-business initiative to build cooperative relationships that improve overall international supply chain and U.S. border security. This initiative was launched to assist the trading community in the war against Terrorism based on the below criteria: • Business Partner Requirements (Security Procedures) • Container Security (Seals, Container Inspection etc) • Physical Access Control • Procedural Security • Security Training and Awareness • Physical Security • Information Technology. A joint government-business initiative, C-TPAT was designed to build cooperative relationships that will strengthen international supply-chain and U.S.-border security. C-TPAT member-certified importers, carriers, brokers, warehouse operators, and manufacturers work together to ensure the integrity of their security practices, communicate their security guidelines to business partners within the supply chain and verify the guidelines of those partners. This is a Compliance Management System. The Scope of this Compliance Management System to increase the accountability of management over supply chain events and partners to prevent the introduction of weapons of terrors into the trade network. For those business partners eligible for C-TPAT certification (carriers, ports, terminals, brokers, consolidators, etc.) the importer must have documentation (e.g., C-TPAT certificate, SVI number, etc.) indicating whether these business partners are or are not C-TPAT certified. Based upon a documented risk assessment process, non-C-TPAT eligible business partners must be subject to verification of compliance with C-TPAT security criteria by the importer.

FAIR TRADE As a much-needed demonstration that international trade can benefit the poor, Fair-trade is booming amongst the consumers of 23 countries. Foodstuffs endorsed with the Fair-trade label guarantee that the grower has been paid a price influenced by the cost of production rather than volatile commodity markets. Furthermore, the label ensures that farm workers are protected by appropriate labour standards and that a premium has been paid to contribute to community projects. With sales of $4 billion in 2008, Fair-trade benefited about 5 million people in poor countries. Fair-trade is largely restricted to a range of agricultural exports such as coffee and bananas. However such views miss the point that the buyer has started out with a vision of dignity and rights for the seller. Fair-trade creates an inspiring linkage between everyday consumers in wealthy countries, global trade and the challenge of world poverty. Fair Trade certification is a product certification system which is designed to allow people to identify products that meet agreed environmental, labour and developmental standards. This certificate guarantees Social Compliance at the highest possible level in the business practices. The system certifies that the company dose not indulge into Child Labour, discrimination between employees and adhere to all legal compliances as per International Labour Organization standards. This certification reinforces our commitment to the best practices to produce and market high quality products.

Forest Stewardship Council 5 Steps towards FSC certification FSC does not issue certificates itself. The certification process is carried out by independent organizations called certification bodies. These certification bodies assess forest management and chain of custody operations against FSC standards. Only FSC accredited certification bodies are authorized to issue FSC certificates. 1. Contact one or several FSC accredited certification bodies. To give you a first estimate regarding cost and time needed the certification body will need some basic information about your operation. The certification body will provide you with information about the requirements for FSC certification. 2. You decide which certification body you would like to work with and sign an agreement with the certification body. 3. A certification audit takes place to assess your company’s qualifications for certification. 4. The data collected at the audit is the basis of the audit report based on which the certification body makes the certification decision. 5. If the certification decision is positive, you receive a FSC certificate. If the audit revealed that your operation is not yet in full compliance with FSC requirements, then you can go for further audits after you have implemented the changes suggested in the certification report. FSC certificates are valid for five years. The FSC accredited certification body will conduct annual surveillance audits to verify your continued compliance with FSC certification requirements. These steps are the same independent on whether you want to become forest management or chain of custody certified.

We are providing iso certification, perhaps it would help to start by explaining what the iso standard is not. Iso 20252 is not a predefined, rigid process that your company must follow. Iso 20252 is not a set of quality checks that you must perform. iso 20252 is not a process iso 20252 is not a set of quality checks so, what then is iso 20252? while iso 20252 does not preordain a process, it does require that that your business have a process. Specifically, it requires that you have a documented and repeatable process. Further, it requires that you have documented quality procedures in place, that your team is trained on your process, that your team understands what quality is expected by your customers and that you measure your quality over time. process iso 20252 is a standard that requires that your business have a documented process for the completion of market research projects quality the standard requires that you have documented quality checks at key points in your process as part of your process, you must measure your quality, record errors, identify the sources of errors and develop plans to prevent the errors from recurring on future projects training iso 20252 requires that you train your team on your processes and quality management system and more there is more to the iso 20252 standard, but the information above is the core of the standard

The ISO 27001 standard was published in October 2005, essentially replacing the old BS7799-2 standard. It is the specification for an ISMS, an Information Security Management System. BS7799 itself was a long standing standard, first published in the nineties as a code of practice. As this matured, a second part emerged to cover management systems. It is this against which certification is granted. Today in excess of a thousand certificates are in place, across the world. ISO 27001 enhanced the content of BS7799-2 and harmonized it with other standards. A scheme has been introduced by various certification bodies for conversion from BS7799 certification to ISO27001 certification. The objective of the standard itself is to "provide a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an Information Security Management System". Regarding its adoption, this should be a strategic decision. Further, "The design and implementation of an organization's ISMS is influenced by their needs and objectives, security requirements, the process employed and the size and structure of the organization". The standard defines its 'process approach' as "The application of a system of processes within an organization, together with the identification and interactions of these processes, and their management". It employs the PDCA, Plan-Do-Check-Act model to structure the processes, and reflects the principles set out in the OECG guidelines

We provide Gots Certification. The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibres, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain.

ISO 50001 will establish a framework for industrial plants ; commercial, institutional, and governmental facilities ; and entire organizations to manage energy. Targeting broad applicability across national economic sectors, it is estimated that the standard could influence up to 60 % of the world’s energy use. ISO 50001 will provide public and private sector organizations with management strategies to increase energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve energy performance. The standard is intended to provide organizations with a recognized framework for integrating energy performance into their management practices. Multinational organizations will have access to a single, harmonized standard for implementation across the organization with a logical.

ISO 22000 Consultancy ( FSMS ) Food Safety Management System Standard ISO 22001 specifies requirements regarding food safety management systems in all food chain, from producers of feed, basic industry producers to food producers, carriers, retailers and catering establishment. The standard includes also terms regarding programme of necessary prerequisites and operating programmes of necessary prerequisites. The standard integrates the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) system and application steps developed by Codex Alimentarius Commission and closely refers to ČSN EN ISO 9001. It serves for registration or certification of food safety management systems by external organization, for organization self-assessment, or more precisely for issue of own declaration of conformity with this international standard.

In 2007, Together with Some of Our Peer Companies, Unilever Established a Global Programme for Responsible Sourcing (progress). now Constituted as a Task Force Within the European Brand Association (aim), Aim-progress Currently Has More Than 20 Members, Including the Coca-cola Company, Nestlé, Danone, Diageo, Pepsico, Cadbury and Procter & Gamble. Aim-progress is also Supported By the Grocery Manufacturers Association (gma), Giving the Initiative a Global Scope. Unilever's Director of Supplier Compliance, Assurance & Security Was the Inaugural Chair of the Aim-progress Programme, Until the End of 2010. This Position is Now Occupied By Diageo's Director of Procurement Risk & Governance. the Main Mission of this Task Force is to Develop Common Methods to Evaluate the Social and Environmental Performance of Suppliers Across Specific Groups of Goods and Services, and Thereby Enable the Mutual Recognition of the Audit Standards Deployed By Aim-progress Members. This Will Further Facilitate a Process Whereby Suppliers Can Confidently Share Their Audit Reports On the Principle that ‘an Audit for One is An Audit for All’, Thus Reducing Unnecessary Duplication and Complexity. In Turn, this Will Accelerate the Process of Assessing Suppliers and Free Up Resources to Focus On Implementing Improvements Within the Supply Chain. sedex approximately Half the Members of Aim-progress have Joined the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (sedex) System in Order to Use Its Well-established Evaluation Methodologies and Database to Share Supplier Assessments and Audit Reports. sedex is a Not-for-profit Organisation Founded in 2004 By a Group of Major Uk Retailers Who Recognised the Need to Collaborate On Ethical Supply Chain Assessment. Like Aim-progress, Its Two Goals Were to Ease the Burden On Suppliers and Drive Improvements in Labour Standards At Production Sites. Sedex Now Has Full Global Reach, with More Than 400 Retailers and Branded Goods Manufacturers Using the System. The Sites of At Least 22, 000 Suppliers are Registered Within the Database. During 2008, Unilever Started to Invite Its Suppliers to Register with Sedex in Order to Complete the Social and Environmental Assessment of Their Sites. By the End of 2010, Approximately 1 500 Suppliers to Unilever Had Been Invited to Register with Sedex, and Complete Their Self-assessments, and 400 Audits Had Been Completed By Third-party Audit Companies to Verify Suppliers’ Operational Practices. We are Continuing this Verification in 2011 as Part of Our Ongoing Programme.

ISO 31000 – Risk Management ISO 31000 is an international standard developed to help organizations of any size and type to manage risk effectively. ISO 31000 views risk as exposure to the consequences of uncertainty -- positive or negative. Risk management is about identifying the variations from what is planned or desired, and managing those risks to maximize opportunities, minimize losses, and improve decisions and outcomes. ISO 31000 is not a standard in which organizations can seek to be certified. By implementing ISO 31000, organizations can compare their risk management practices with an internationally recognized benchmark that provides sound principles for effective management.

ISO 20000 – Information Technology Service Management System Certification : ISO 20000 is the first global Standard that specifies the requirements of IT Service Provider Organisations with integrated set of management processes for effective delivery of IT Services. This certification is applicable to any organisation whose services and products mainly depends on IT Infrastructure. ISO 20000 Standard specifies five key group service Management Processes i.e. Service Delivery , Service Relationship , Service Resolution and Service Control and Service Release.