It depends on you and your company. The very fastest is 2-3 months because most ISO 9001 registrars require at least 2 months ISO 9001 track record before the certification audit.
More realistically: if you have a relatively small company (say, less than 20 employees), if your employees are motivated and if they don’t oppose change, if you have the backing of all senior executives, if you and other managers are ready to put some significant time and efforts into this endeavor, and if you use a really good ISO 9001 quality manual template (a sample ISO 9000 quality manual that you can modify to make it your own ISO 9000 quality manual), then you may be able to get certified in as short as 3-4 months; templates for ISO 9000 forms are an additional time-saver. Some companies are significantly slower, with 6-12 months not being unusual.
However, companies that write their ISO 9001 quality manual and their ISO 9001 quality procedures from scratch, rather than base them on a proven sample ISO 9001 quality manual, often take up to 2 years or longer.
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