Consultant or documentation toolkit

Answer:

Every approach has its pros and cons, hiring consultant is more expensive and consultants tend to make it as easier as possible for the company and this usually leads to less involvement of the employees in the implementation process which eaves them with insufficient knowledge for later maintenance of the quality management system. Very often, after the consultant leaves, the company only formally has the standard without really implementing new processes.

On the other hand, documentation toolkit will require more time and effort of your employees, but this will make them learn more about the standard and it will enable them to later maintain the system without additional help. The documentation toolkit is consisted of documents that need to be adjusted to the organization and this makes companies writing the procedures for themselves and not hiring someone from the outside of the comp any to do it for them and this makes the procedure more inline with the company operations.

Whether hiring a consultant or buying the documentation toolkit, you will be able to meet the 4 months deadline, but the effort invested in the implementation will pay off later during maintenance and will enable your company to achieve benefits from ISO 9001 implementation.

For more information, see: Comparison matrices for ISO 9001 implementation solutions https://advisera.com/9001academy/comparison/