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- Quality Management System
- Process
- Audit finding response
Audit finding response
An audit combines scope, standard, date and auditor with clause-level checklists. Findings become separately owned response work. This path gives Quality Manager a clear decision point before the audit and finding are closed.
Step by step
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Schedule the audit Quality Manager
Quality Manager defines scope, standard and assigned auditor.
- Set scope and schedule
- Updates Audits, Quality standards
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Check clauses Auditor
Auditor records checklist results and observed evidence during the review.
- Preserve observations
- Updates Audit checklists, Audits
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Record findings Auditor
Auditor describes each issue, its severity, clause, owner and due date.
- Assign responses
- Updates Audit findings, Audits
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Receive response Auditor
The named response owner supplies the answer and supporting evidence; Auditor records the response on the finding.
- Capture owner reply
- Updates Audit findings
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Verify response Quality Manager
Quality Manager reviews whether the finding was addressed.
- Confirm treatment
- Updates Audit findings
ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on. -
Close audit Quality Manager
Quality Manager reviews the audit result and signs off after the finding work is checked.
- Record final result
- Updates Audits, Audit findings
Who does what
Roles and permissions- Auditor
- Conducts the assigned review and records findings; Quality Manager oversees sign-off; Supplier Quality Engineer participates in supplier audits.
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