IFS HPC – Consumer Products Certification: Product Management System
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IFS HPC – Consumer Products Certification: Product Management System
Certification of your management system and production processes to the IFS HPC - Consumer Products Standard demonstrates your commitment and helps meet requirements on product safety, quality, legality and continual improvement. This supports access to retail and wholesale opportunities and strengthens customer confidence in the market for household and personal care products.
What is the IFS HPC – Consumer Products standard?
IFS HPC – Consumer Products is applicable for organizations involved in the manufacturing, processing or handling of household and personal care products, whether they produce retailer private labels, branded products or non-branded goods.
The standard provides requirements that support the development and maintenance of a well-managed product management system. It covers four product groups: cosmetics, household chemical products, daily use household products and personal hygiene products.
The focus is on product safety, quality and compliance across the entire processing chain. The standard supports organizations in managing risks, structuring processing activities and demonstrating reliable and traceable production practices.
IFS HPC – Consumer Products helps you achieve:
- Supports your organization in providing safe compliant and quality goods to the market
- Ensure comparability and transparency throughout the supply chain
- Improved operational efficiency across processes
- Regulatory and customer compliance
- Stronger senior management responsibility
- Better traceability and incident readiness
Increased credibility and competitive advantage
Value of IFS-HPC – Consumer Products certification
Certification to IFS HPC – Consumer Products by an independent third-party like DNV confirms that your product management system meets the requirements of the standard. It also shows your commitment to applying product management principles effectively.
As a result, you get:
- Increased customer trust and credibility in a market where expectations to product quality and safety are increasing
- Reduced need for customer audits
- Better access to markets
- Improved business reputation
- Objective insight from external auditors to identify gaps and improvement opportunities
- Clear demonstration for stakeholders, partners and employees
- Support for trading with customers that require third party audits
- Potential to reduce total audit time by combining multiple audits
- More effective use of resources
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How to get IFS HPC – Consumer Products certified
To be certified, you first need to implement a product management system complying with the standard’s requirements. DNV is an independent third-party certification body accredited and approved for the IFS HPC – Consumer Products standard. We can help you throughout the journey starting from relevant training to self-assessments, gap analysis and certification services.
As a DNV customer, you also get access to a suite of digital tools that can help you ensure compliance, continually improve and manage your entire certification journey with us.
Learn how to get started and be certified
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Obtain the standard:
Get a licensed copy of the relevant standard and familiarize yourself with the requirements to decide if certification/registration to this standard makes good sense for your organization.
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Review available literature and apply digital tools
Explore available literature, guidelines from the standard owners (e.g. ISO/TS 9002 for ISO 9001, ISO 14004 for ISO 14001) and digital sources and tools that can assist with implementation. Note that as a DNV customer you get access to tailored tools that can assist you.
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Assemble a team and define strategy:
To implement a management system should be a strategic decision for the entire organization. Senior management must be involved in the decision, committed and involved in shaping the system. They decide the business strategy the management system should support. In addition, you need a dedicated team to develop and implement your management system.
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Determine competence needs:
First, your team implementing and maintaining the management system needs a thorough understanding of the chosen standards. Later on, the wider organization needs awareness training. DNV offers a variety of public and in-house courses worldwide that meets your competence training needs at all levels within your organization.
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Review consultant options:
Independent consultants can advise on a workable, realistic, and cost-effective strategy plan for implementation if you do not have this competence or capacity already.
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Develop management system documentation:
Decide on an appropriate platform for your documented information (e.g. software, process map- or SharePoint-based). The right platform is important to ensure effective management, communication and implementation.
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Determine, manage and document processes:
First identify key processes – what they are, how they work, and how they interact. Each process should have a clear purpose, defined responsibilities, and expected outputs. The level of documented information needed depends on the organization’s size, complexity, and the importance of each process, but must include relevant processes and other documented information needed to deliver on intended outcomes and comply with the chosen standard’s requirements.
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Implement management system:
Clear communication and necessary competence training are essential elements. During the implementation phase, you will work to ensure that your organization is working according to defined and documented processes. Once successful, you can prove system’s compliance and effectiveness.
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Select a certification body/registrar:
Selecting the right certification body/registrar can make a difference throughout your certification journey. DNV offers a trusted partnership approach, a risk-based approach and range of free digital tools that help you manage your certification journey before, during and after the audit.
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Consider a pre-audit gap analysis:
Consider a preliminary evaluation by your certification body/registrar to identify and correct nonconformities before starting the official certification process. The purpose is to identify areas of non-conformance or weaknesses, allowing you to correct these before you begin the official certification process.
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IFS HPC – Consumer Products Certification - FAQ
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IFS HPC is an internationally standard for assessing the safety quality and regulatory compliance of household and personal care products. It sets out requirements that support organizations in producing safe high quality and legally compliant goods through a structured risk-based approach. The standard applies to organizations of any size involved in manufacturing cosmetics household chemicals hygiene items and daily use household products and supports reliable and transparent production practices.
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IFS HPC certification helps organizations strengthen product safety improve process control and demonstrate compliance with customer and regulatory requirements. It supports more efficient operations reduces the risk of recalls and complaints and increases transparency and trust across the supply chain. Certification can also reduce the need for customer audits enhance market access and encourage continual improvement through the standard’s scoring and evaluation approach.
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