Olena Kudryashova, Director of the Department of Personnel and Management Systems of the Univest Marketing Company, shared her expert opinion on the foundations for building a healthy organization and international standards.

Our goal is to be a reliable supplier of integrated packaging solutions for the food industry, to do it with care for people and the environment. And that is why we have implemented an integrated management system based on the requirements of international standards and certification schemes: ISO 9001:2015, FSSC 22,000, FSC (Forest Supervisory Board supply chain), SEDEX. We at Univest work on this every day, having a solid foundation in the form of many Lean standards and philosophy.

When you use international standards in your work for many years, you see how the appearance of each of their new versions reflects the global process of change and requires continuous improvements from us as a manufacturer.

But there are fundamental basic things that remain constant – these are the principles of the ISO 9001 standard, which provide us with the basis for building a healthy and successful organization. The principles are as follows:
  • Customer Focus
  • Leadership
  • Personnel engagement
  • Process approach
  • Improvements
  • Making decisions based on facts
  • Relationship Management
In addition, ISO 9001 has a general structure, which makes it a basic standard, easily compatible with other management systems and international standards. We are confident that each Company can effectively combine its own principles, principles and requirements of standards, sustainable environmental development and corporate social responsibility. Synchronization of principles and requirements gives confidence that the company’s management system operates internationally, and partners and colleagues – a guarantee that the company can be trusted. In turn, management is based on respect and trust, leads to the stability of the company, strengthens corporate unity and responsibility, serves as the basis for building its own unique production system.