Companies Can Now Outsource Their Quality Internal Audit Process to The Advantage Group for Excellent Cost Savings and Breakthrough Process Effectiveness.

Los Gatos, CA. December 2, 2003. Outsourcing Services for Internal Quality Audits including standards such as ISO 9001:2000, TL 9000, QS 9000, TS 16949 are now definitively more cost and business effective. This is accomplished by utilizing The Advantage Group, a consortium of certified specialists with senior level management team experience.

(PRWEB) December 2, 2003

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Outsourcing to a senior level Business Improvement Specialist who is a certified Quality Auditor is cost effective and saves the time of valuable internal employees whose core competencies are not audit related. This action also gives senior management objective recommendations to improve business and processes.

Susan Pignataro, Founder and Principal of Advantage Consulting, a Silicon Valley based Business and Engineering Improvement Consulting Company, announced today that the company will add an Internal Quality Management System Audit Outsourcing Service to its array of business and project management services.

"Internal Quality Management System Audit Outsourcing is being offered as a response to inquiries for this type of service. It is complementary to services currently provided to our semiconductor, medical and consumer product clients. Our objective is to provide the type of business and technical services to our clients that permits them to concentrate on their core competencies, keeping them successful and competitive," said Susan Pignataro.

Ms. Pignataro also discussed the fact that most manufacturing company customers in the automotive, medical and telecommunication industries, along with Federal Regulators such as the FDA require suppliers to be certified to various quality and industry standards. The latest quality standards require an overall review of the effectiveness of all business processes as opposed to only evaluating individual specifications, tasks or records. This review must be performed during a cycle of internal process audits that cover all departments of the corporation and corrective actions must be tracked.

Updates and changes to the standards now require a trained auditor who has considerable business experience. This experience enables them to understand how processes internally and externally to the corporation inter-relate.

In order to comply, companies have tried to choose higher level internal employees from differing departments, inclusive of their Quality Departments, paid thousands of dollars for them to participate in a four to five day training class and then depended on these employees to spend a few days a month performing internal audits. In some cases this has been successful. In many more, there has been a substantial loss of investment when these people could not audit due to a multiplicity of issues. Some examples of those issues are; Employees have been routinely needed for critical work within their home departments and not able to fit the auditing into their schedule; Promotion; Lay-off; or the employee finds alternative employment altogether and exits the company. These situations have then required the company to begin the expense and time consuming process of choosing auditors and training them over again.

The experience and consistency of Advantage Consulting will help companies conform to the standards and permit their experienced internal employees to concentrate on the pressing matters of their home departments.

About Advantage Consulting: Advantage Consulting is a Silicon Valley based Business and Engineering Improvement Consulting Company started in 1992 specializing in the semiconductor, medical and consumer product industries. Clients include Fortune 100 companies. Companies hire Advantage Consulting for Large Scale Strategy and Project Implementation, Reduction in Time to Market using Six Sigma Black Belt Techniques, Quality Management System Audit Preparation, Technical Due Diligence, Root Cause Customer Problem Analysis and Improvement, and Customized Technical Project Management Workshops.

For more information call 408-835-0794, write susanp@advantageconsulting.com or visit http://www.advconsultant.com.

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