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Audit & Corrective Actions Management
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Achiever Plus Audit and Corrective Action Management, as part of the overall Achiever Plus GRC suite, provides a truly integrated solution. Time and cost savings will be swiftly and continually realized and prioritization and scheduling of audits will become an integral part of the business management process.
Achiever Plus Audit and Corrective Action Management enables organizations to visibly demonstrate adherence to auditing requirements whilst also identifying areas for business improvement.
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A robust internal audit program reviews the business processes and functions of an organization and identifies risks, problems and opportunities for improvement. The audit programme will be a strategic resource to the board and management team, knowing that the organization has effective and compliant business policies and processes in place.
In order to evidence adherence to corporate governance policies, risk management and compliance (GRC) requirements, it is vital that a single GRC management platform is in place, which delivers an integrated solution across the organization. Additionally, this management system should be subject to a planned audit program.
Specific features and benefits include:
• Audit planning - The creation and maintenance of audit checklists ensures consistency and accuracy in the auditing process.
• Audit profiles, defining the scope and frequency of the audit, automate the audit scheduling process so that they are actioned in a timely manner
• Associating an audit with one or more standards or pieces of legislation ensures that compliance with many individual standards can be demonstrated in a single audit schedule, saving time and reducing costs.
• Role-based access across the organization, means that users can only access the information that they need, delivering security of sensitive data.
• Audit trails ensure clear traceability of actions throughout the audit and corrective action process, meaning that any anomalies can be easily isolated.
NON-CONFORMANCE AND IMPROVEMENT MANAGEMENT
• Non-conformances or improvement opportunities highlighted during an audit can be documented and ownership identified to help ensure rectification.
• Problems can be associated with specific compliance areas and business processes so that high risk areas can be quickly identified.
• Problem costs can be identified so that resources can be allocated to areas where the business will best benefit from them.
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FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION
• Customer configurable audit types, non-conformance types, categorization and keywords mean that the system reflects the organization’s needs and delivers information via an intuitive interface.
• Configured default settings for audit planning and non-conformance management, offer ease of use for all participants in the audit process.
• Configuration enables audits to be completed against a process, compliance standard, department or a single document.
WORKFLOW AND ESCALATION PROCESSES
• Best practice workflows, for audit and problem management processes, ensure that the audit program results in on-going improvement.
• All stages of the audit and corrective action process use email notification, via familiar existing email systems. This supports user acceptance and reduces training requirements.
• Incomplete actions can be escalated using a configurable escalation engine, ensuring that all audits and corrective actions are monitored to completion.
MANAGEMENT REPORTING
• Reports produced from Achiever Plus audit management identify all outstanding actions in the system, highlighting potential problems and areas for improvement.
• Reports of non-conformances by problem type, status, date, root cause, risk rating and many other parameters support business decision making, based on accurate and relevant audit data.
INTEGRATION WITH DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
• Audits can be associated with processes stored in the document management system.
• Audit processes and checklist are readily available to auditors at the point of audit.
• The system makes it easy to demonstrate that an audit schedule covers all GRC management and system requirements.
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Our customers say...
“Auditors now see the benefits of Achiever Plus too. At our last audit in Hamburg the auditors were impressed by how fast we could bring up information. It’s a very capable product that offers very good flexibility, a Web and client based front end and multiples ways of viewing or reporting on data. It’s well supported, is regularly updated and has a proven track record”
Simon Benson, European Environmental, Safety & Security Manager, NYK Group, Europe
“Achiever Plus is helping to both reduce audit time and fees and provides the auditors with a greater confidence that the controls are in place, tested and where required that remediation is taking place. Achiever Plus has been instrumental in our successful accreditation to QS9000 in just eight months. Soon after that the company also gained the ISO 14001 environmental standard and OHSAS 18001 health and safety standard, making three major accreditations in the space of 12 months. We have now also achieved the ISO 13485 medical standard. Our progress would have been far more difficult without the benefit of Achiever Plus.
Mike Hillcock, Quality Systems Manager, Parlex UK.
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Achiever Plus GRC Management Solution
Achiever Business Solutions (ABS) has uniquely provided business management software solutions since 1993. Steady growth has funded continuing development of what is now a fully unified Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) management solution – Achiever Plus. With over 600 active clients across the globe, using Achiever Plus for up to 38 areas of compliance management with a single solution, Achiever Plus has an unbeatable track record.
Today there are many legislative, regulatory and best-practice standards affecting organizations and the number and complexity of these requirements is forecast to increase. Organizations need a system which will ensure that they both comply with the latest standards and can easily incorporate new demands at any time. Leading business analysts recommend a single integrated GRC system approach, to simply management and reduce costs.
Achiever Plus GRC management solution addresses these business-critical issues, forming the foundation for a single corporate wide unified GRC platform. Achiever Plus GRC management solutions provide the functionality to cover multiple compliance areas, including Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001, Life Sciences, IS0 27001 and multiple industry specific compliance requirements.
Integration with Microsoft and other Achiever Plus modules within the GRC suite delivers a single, fast to deploy and easy to manage GRC platform. |
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