American Certification Services – Global Program (ACSGP)

Quality Management that turns systems into competitive advantage

Quality isn’t only an outcome like customer satisfaction—it’s a managed process you can measure, monitor, and improve at every level: activity → process → system. If you can measure it, you can improve it.

Mindset
Process-first

Measure → Improve

Scope
Activity → System

Granular to end-to-end

Efficiency
Lower Cost

Do more with less

Effectiveness
Better Results

Hit the targets

Our view of Quality

Quality is a managed, measurable process

At American Certification Services – Global Program (ACSGP), Quality is the discipline of aligning process performance with intended outcomes. Customer satisfaction is important, but it’s an effect—you achieve it by managing the causes inside activities and processes.

Measure what matters

Find the steps that drive satisfaction and system performance—then measure, monitor, and improve them.

Define intended outputs

Set best-intended outputs for each process and track them via inspections, monitoring, audits, feedback, and disruption incidents.

Turn the improvement knob

With the right indicators, you hold a knob to tune Quality across activities, processes, and the system— reducing cost while improving performance.

Quality in one line

Quality is the ability of a product or service to meet stated and implied requirements. Implied requirements are obvious, context-driven expectations—even if the customer didn’t explicitly ask.

Customers aren’t only external

Measure Quality at activity & process levels

Remember: “customers” include internal customers—the next person or function in your workflow. Measuring Quality only at the end result misses the points where it is created (or lost). Quality should be measured at the activity and process levels, long before products/services reach the final customer.

Purchasing → Production

Production is the internal customer of Purchasing. If PO accuracy and on-time delivery aren’t measured, downstream defect rates and delays rise—even if final QA looks fine.

Measure: PO right-first-time, supplier OTD, incoming NCRs.
Maintenance → Operations

Operations is Maintenance’s internal customer. Poor PM compliance degrades line availability—costs rise, yield falls.

Measure: PM completion %, MTBF/MTTR, availability.
Service Design → Service Delivery

Delivery depends on accurate, usable procedures. If clarity and version control aren’t measured, service variance increases.

Measure: SOP completeness, change lead-time, first-time-fix.
Why this matters

Early, activity-level indicators let you prevent defects and delays—improving efficiency and effectiveness where Quality is actually made.

Benefits of strong Quality Management

Outperform competitors with less

Cost reduction (efficiency)

Eliminate waste and over-control; do more with fewer resources.

Better results (effectiveness)

Align processes to KPIs and outcomes your customers value.

Higher satisfaction & trust

Consistent delivery builds loyalty and brand reputation.

Audit-ready evidence

Clear records from monitoring, feedback, and corrective action cycles.

Continual improvement culture

PDCA thinking embedded across teams and suppliers.

Competitive edge

Excellence in Quality lets you win with better value at lower cost.

ACSGP Auditing Focus

Audits that target Quality where it matters

1 = 1 Conformity

Confirm baseline clause compliance (audit-ready foundation).

Efficiency checks

Is the process cost-right for the risks and outcomes required?

Effectiveness checks

Are intended results achieved with suitable KPIs and monitoring?

Ready to elevate Quality across your system?

Partner with ACSGP to measure what matters, lower cost, and improve results—consistently.

Efficiency
Do more with less
Effectiveness
Results that matter