QMS, Quality Manual, Quality Procedures and Quality Management Plan

A QMS, as ISO 9000:2015 defines, is part of a management system related to quality. While implementing a QMS an organization may develop non-mandatory documents like a Quality Manual, a kind of the QMS’s identity card, Quality procedures, documents that set rules about how organizations should act in certain circumstances. Concerning what is a Quality Management Plan, that terminology is not very common with ISO 9001:2015. So, different people may mean different things. For example, a QMP may mean how the QMS is applied in a particular project.

Companies that work on a project basis, like construction companies, normally have to develop a QMP for each project. Many times it is a client request.

You can find more information about documentation below:

• New approach to document and record control in ISO 9001:2015 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2015/06/30/new-approach-to-document-and-record-control-in-iso-90012015/
• Some tips to make Document Control more useful for your QMS - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2014/05/20/tips-make-document-control-useful-qms/
• Free online training ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
• Book - Managing ISO Documentation: A Plain English Guide - https://advisera.com/books/managing-iso-documentation-plain-english-guide/