
Many large multi-location companies are struggling to connect their corporate quality manuals with supporting, location-specific documents. To develop a manual for a company with numerous facilities, organizations typically take two routes: site-specific manuals as copies of the corporate manual or quality manuals independent from the corporate manual.
When a site-specific quality manual is developed as a copy of the corporate quality manual with modifications specific to a given facility, mechanisms to keep the site's quality manual coordinated with the corporate quality manual are rarely defined. Difficulties of keeping these documents in sync are due to the fact that corporate manuals are controlled by the home office, while local manuals are the responsibility of the site's documentation control functions.
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