A management system for your company offers structure, accountability, and direction to those who work within it. It’s your company’s structure for the strategic goals you set and the tools your team uses to achieve the outcomes you need in order to achieve certain standards of quality, meet legal regulations regarding occupational safety or to increase profits through more efficient processes.
Management systems are based on the notion that tasks can be assumed to manage themselves if all processes are documented and responsibilities are assigned. This is not always the case in practice, but this is what companies strive for when they introduce management systems for their company.
This logic is applicable to any management system, whether they are used for quality, sustainability or energy. All of them are identical in their primary functions: plan actions, implement, review metrics and continuously improve. This is the reason you can find so many similar tools on the market.
It’s not practical to manage multiple systems at once as management systems are used in all areas of a company and usually are a cross-functional focus. It is not a good option to create a concept management system that is atop the quality management system you already have. This will only add unnecessary burdens to your employees and is not practical from an ISO perspective. It is becoming increasingly crucial to make use of software that integrates different systems, both existing and new, into one management system.
