When will Anemo have AS9120 quality certificate?

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we are well aware to the needs of having a quality certificate and have a long term plan to integrate it.  We want to have AS9120 that is specifically for distributors selling to the aerospace market.

Based on ISO 9001:2000, but with nearly 100 additional requirements specific to aerospace distributors, AS9120 provides suppliers with a comprehensive quality system focused on areas directly impacting product safety and reliability including:

> Splitting - Specific requirements for batch splitting and lot splitting, and how conformance to specification is maintained.
> Airworthiness certificates - Defines the documents issued by cognizant civil aviation authorities that certifies that parts meet the required airworthiness requirements.
> Control of records - Record requirements differ significantly for distributors of aerospace product.  AS9120 defines those requirements.
> Traceability - Defines specific requirements for traceability from receipt until delivery.
> Evidence of Conformance - Specific documents are required by distributors as evidence of conformance.  AS9120 defines those requirements.

 

what did we do and will do:

2014  decided that we want to atain AS9120 in the future

2015  looked for accreditation company and consulting company able to guide us through the certification necessities

2016 we went into the cloud with all our emails and files
2016 we plan to integrate our customer & supplier files into our CRM system.  Supplier files are invoices, quality documents, delivery notes, lot tracability, certificates ; we want to do this together with the accountancy firm and the CRM firm.
one of the things that holds us that our main aerospace supplier is not yet giving the delivery notes in a pdf version, once that is okay we should be ready to go.  Although we will not wait until they do it, as we work in parallel with our accountancy firm to have this integrated for any of our other suppliers that are still not working digital
2016 we will buy land to build a new office (to integrate AS9120 in our small offices is virtually unpossible, we need more place in our warehouse and have decided to build offices & warehouse)
on 21 November 2016 we had a meeting with sellers of land, it's a new industry complex close to the city of Veurne, we have postulated us candidate to buy 2000 m² and build at least a 1000m² surface building

2017 february, we did not win the option to be able to reserve an option of the land in industry park Veurne
2017 we would want to be completely CRM with our stock & warehouse to enable control of records, splitting & conformance certs.

2018 we applied again for an option to buy land

2019 January, we got confirmation from the local town Veurne that we were selected out of a group of 8 candidates, 3 are still remaining, we are "off the record, number 2, the soil will be 3000m².

2019 we did not get the ground to build the building

September 2020 we will move to the new building in Diksmuide and be able to have our warehouse organised according to the requirements of AS9120
 

Oktober 2020 we have apointed a person to work on the requirements of starting certification. 

a person is now in charge of measuring the amount of quotes we lost due to not having certification by an external audit company.  First thoughts is that we loose around 1% of our sales which makes it not a big motivator to start up this whole process.  however once it's quanitified, we might be willing to start doing it.  So far we have sold products direct to Lockheed, Boeing, Airbus, and many companies in that field, who never had an issue regarding this.

November 2020 we still want to work on improving our stock arrangement.

everything is also on hold due to us first needing to transfer to Odoo CRM & ERP software.  (This process we started 2 years ago)

 CRM & ERP is implemented in 2022 May

 

2023

 as for the moment we loose only 0.1% of our sales due to not having a quality cert, we do not want to invest the time into this at this moment.
we've sold direct to companies like Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin and many aerospace manufacturers, as well as airlines and multiple critical applications.
people should request our certificate of conformity, which allows them the right to do an audit at any time at our premisses. furthermore all quality records are kept for a period of 25 years anyway, guaranteeing full traceability.

 Here is the link:

https://anemo.eu/what-does-certificate-conformity-issued-anemo-mean

 

if we go for a quality cert, we have following external party that can help us with this:

Ann De Vieger, QP Consult bv

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