What is an Integrated Management System (IMS)?

With a management system, you communicate your company's rules of the game. This includes strategic goals as well as internal objectives. Regardless of whether they are recorded in writing or passed on orally — different standards determine that a company's guidelines must be communicated. Compliance with these standards is a decisive factor in the future for most organizations. This is because many companies work exclusively with certified suppliers and service providers.

Over time, are numerous management systems created, for example for quality management, environmental management, occupational safety or energy management. Maintaining each set of rules individually takes a lot of time. Since the different systems often overlap thematically, there is duplication of work. Different requirements for one and the same process are also defined in different regulations. In addition to their actual work, employees must therefore handle several management systems and their regulations in parallel. For example, during the “Check incoming goods” process:

• Quality management defines the criteria according to which the goods are tested.

• Environmental management describes supplier evaluation according to environmental criteria.

• Occupational safety requires that safety shoes be worn during incoming goods inspection.

The efficient solution is a IMS, that is, a Integrated management system, which bundles all regulations in one central location. In this way, synergies can be exploited and standard requirements from various areas can be easily met — saving both time and money.

Q.wiki — IMS with an interactive character

With the Q.wiki management software, your IMS becomes interactive. The basic idea of interactive management systems: Participation creates identification — all users can actively participate. With minimal effort, every employee contributes experience and suggestions for improvement; together, the entire staff continuously optimizes the company organization. In doing so, a Approval workflowthat the respective changes are correct. Thanks to decentralized care, work processes are always up to date and are accepted by employees — a real added value compared to centrally controlled IMS!

Integrating new standards is also child's play: For every standard such as ISO 9001 or IATF 16949, the software provides an overview of the standard chapters; process descriptions can be linked directly to various standard requirements, from documentation of organizational knowledge or entrepreneurial opportunities and risks to approval workflows. Process-oriented and employee-oriented The QM software Q.wiki thus combines all work processes in an integrated management system. This reduces both the maintenance costs of your management system as well as redundancies and contradictory work instructions.

The result is a lean system that bundles the entire organizational knowledge of your company and makes it strategically usable. Collaboration across the company is becoming noticeably easier and more efficient. With up to 100 accesses per employee and month Your IMS becomes an essential tool and information portal in everyday working life. As Single Point of Truth Q.wiki offers many benefits that increase your competitiveness.