Managing and Audit Programme

Establishing the extent of the audit programme

Processes

The scope of an audit programme may be shown in the Process Overview, which provides a high level picture of all the processes included within the programme. As well as providing details of the next audit that is schedule for the process, it provides the status of any audits that are in progress. A number of markers, highlight any processes which have audits scheduled within the next 4 weeks or already reached their due date, but have not yet started.

New Process

A process may be created to define a topic or area within the business, which helps with the planning of an audit programme. When defining a programme and determining is scope consideration might be given to:

The organisational structure, possibly listing regions, divisions, department or teams.
The organisational locations, sites, buildings, floors or segregated areas
The products and services provided
The business operational processes, such as marketing, sales, design and development, production, support
The support functions and process, such management of IT, HR, Buildings

Once a process is created, it is displayed in the Process Overview

Process Overview

Each process may be edited by double clicking on the individual process, which allows all controls and clauses that apply to the process to be identified.

Add Controls

When planning a programme, it is important to identify all the compliance requirement that apply. These requirements can be identified for each process, enabling future audits to be planned, based on the compliance requirements defined at process level.

All the controls previously set up – in the CMA Setup may be selected for each process.

Any number of controls may be identified and linked to a process. By selecting the ‘Add Controls’ menu and selecting the drop down boxes provided it is possible to select a control, by pressing (green symbol). For efficiency, it is possible to select a complete set of controls from one ‘Control Group’, a group of nested controls, or an individual controls.

A list of all the controls selected is provided for review, within this display it possible to remove controls. Again controls may be deleted at for a control group, nested group or individually.

Once all the required controls are selected the submit option must be taken to assign the clauses to the process.

Note: it is possible to add and remove clauses until an assigned audit starts.

Add Clauses

All the clauses previously set up – in the AAMSetup, may be selected for each process.

Any number of clauses may be identified and assigned to a process. By selecting the ‘Add Clauses’ menu and selecting the drop down boxes provided it is possible to select a control, by pressing (green symbol). For efficiency, it is possible to select a complete set of clauses from one ‘Control Group’, a group of nested controls, or an individual clause.

A list of all the clauses selected is provided for review, within this display it possible to remove clauses. Again clauses may be deleted at for a ‘Control Group’, nested group or individually.

Once all the required clauses are selected the submit option must be taken to assign the clauses to the process.

Note: it is possible to add and remove clauses until an assigned audit starts.

Add an Audit

Once a process is defined, and the clauses and controls that describe compliance requirements are assigned to the process, an audit may be set up for that process by selecting the ‘Add an Audit’ from the menu bar.

Initially some basic information to describe the scope of the audit needs to be decided. As well as planning the initial audit start date and finish date, it is possible to plan multiple audits, based on the same scope. It is possible to identify the number of audits that take place and the time interval between each audit.

An individual contact or team, may be assigned as the auditor to each audit.

Whilst planning the scope of the audit individual divisions may also be considered along with the type of audit that will take place.

Once the basic details are finally submitted the audit along with any future scheduled repeated audits are assigned to the process, and displayed in the planned audit tab. Each individual audit may be edited at future date to reassign.

Archive a Process

Processes may be archived at any time, the request to archive the process will hide the process from view, but will not remove the data.

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