Onboarding and adopting Unifize
This video outlines the swift and efficient onboarding process to Unifize for managing corrective actions, risk assessments, and change control within their quality management system. Highlighting the collaborative effort with the Unifize team, the speaker details how they were able to upload historical data and fully implement these crucial aspects within just three to four weeks—a timeline significantly shorter than anticipated. This rapid deployment, compared to previous experiences with other systems, underscores Unifize's ease of adoption and its immediate impact on enhancing the company's quality management processes.
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00:00 - 00:12
The next thing that we were concerned about and we wanted to start using Unifize for was implementing the corrective action, risk assessment portion of our quality management system as well as change control too.



00:12 - 00:25
Uploading all of our previous change control and carry history was done fairly quickly after a lot of discussion with the Unifize team, we're able to get that portion rolled out within three, four weeks.



00:25 - 00:35
I mean, it was we were surprised because we didn't think that we were going to be able to use Unifize effectively for three, six months.



00:35 - 01:00
Our experience, well, we didn't we haven't done roll outs for, you know, electronic quality management systems in the past. We've done roll outs for other software was for other aspects of our business for our CRMs, for ERP and the rollout for those types of systems, even with the support of the dev team on hand could take six, eight, ten, sometimes a year and a half before people can start using it and understand it effectively.



01:00 - 01:07
So the fact that we were able to take Unifize and start using it for some of our most important quality management processes within just a few weeks was a big win for us.

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But what we've known from what I experience was, is we were able to get there with the system. We still there with the system. The system has what is needed to provide us what we're looking for, because every company, admittedly, is trying to get compliant. If we educate people, if we get people the education that they need and to get over the fear factor, I think 90% of those things can be resolved because most people will go to what they're most familiar with.What I worked with from a different company, but they're not willing to sit down and look at what the demographics are saying. People are into social media now. People are moving fast into fast paced world. But technologies are still antiquated. So there's a disconnect here, right? So while we're moving at a fast pace at home with dragging at work, so why can't we continue that speed while we at work?If your supplier has issues and you're not informed on time, you want to have an alternate supplier in place. If your suppliers are not qualified, you may not know that that needs to happen. And so when you have an integrated system that speaks to itself and is giving you all this data, you literally have the pulse of the organization in your hands as an executive at a money bound access.

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