Impact of product certification in the Brazilian automotive batteries industry: a case study

Abstract Product certification, when compulsory, is the adoption by an industrial segment of a set of procedures required by a sector regulatory body, proving that the product that is the object of regulation meets the minimum quality requirements. The objective of this research was to study the impact of product certification in a medium-sized industry of automotive batteries manufacturer. which has recently been subjected to compulsory certification. We aimed to study the impacts on the organization internal value chain, as well as its interaction with its competitive environment, from qualitative variables taken from two models in the literature. We performed a case study and identified impacts in productivity, marketing strategies, relationship with its supply chain and in the labor force qualification requirements, among other factors of the studied company.