Audit Planning
Auditing is extremely important to any organization. It is critical to uncovering issues within business operations and defines a procedure for quality improvement within the departments and the whole organization.
Benefits of Audit Planning include:
- Reduced time required to plan, conduct and document audits
- Confirmation that all stages of an audit are completed
- Scheduling of regular audits and aletring department or wholebusiness by eMail
- Trends can be identified by studying historical performance
- Standardized checklists and worksheets can be printed off and used during audit
- Status reports of issues
- Helps meeet requirements of regulatory audits e.g. ISO 9000, ISO 14000, H&S etc
The Audit Planning module can assist in the planning, conducting and reporting of both internal and extrnal audits. Regular audits ensure that the quality standards defined for an organization are maintained. Any issues raised must be seen to be actioned and closed off in a satisfactory manner. The Audit Planning module can be used to automatically schedule audits and to inform departments of the forthcoming event. Results of past audits are stored and can be used to identify trends within audit findings. They can also be used to monitor the time to resolve issues and to check if there is an improvement in performance.