N5-Audit Solution

Manage your audits and actions

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Plan audits
You have total freedom and can define which types of audit, which catalogues of requirements and assessment tools to use.
You define audit plans and/or single audits with just a couple of mouse-clicks by selecting the relevant information from the N5-Process Solution.

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Perform audits and draw up reports
Record and evaluate your findings. Free text editors facilitate input of your summaries. Whether it’s an “official” audit report, simple lists of findings/actions, a 4D/8D report... Output the document you need as a PDF file at the press of a button.

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Plan and monitor actions
You define actions with deadline, responsible users, and reference to findings. Traffic light symbols for adherence to deadlines, progress indicators, and escalation messages in the event of delays facilitate continuous improvement. Actions are concluded with proof of efficacy.

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Evaluate results of audits and actions
You have complete flexibility in evaluating your audits and actions. Whether it is automatic review evaluations or custom reports. Create time series comparisons and process benchmarks with just a few clicks. Export your results as a PDF document or Excel list.

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Audit Administration

Supports the common types and styles of audits

Perform internal system or process audits and external supplier audits

Risk management
Perform risk analyses and assessments

Free definition of assessment systems
Freely definable systems (incl. point ratings) for the assessment of findings and the resulting actions

Manage external master data

Management of supplier information, including contacts and their processes

Workflow support for the participants

Specific support for auditors, e.g. with automatic sending of notifications

Management of requirement catalogues
Includes, among other things, the option of specifying so-called standards synopses between different catalogues

Management of triggers and audit topics

Possible to define catalogues for audit triggers and audit topics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audit planning

Audit plan management and release of workflow

Definition of audit plans, with, among other things, planning responsibility, (annual) plan release and versioning

Rough planning
Definition of audit master data with, among other things, lead auditors, co-auditors, timeframe for performance, requirements catalogues, processes to be audited, criteria

Analysis of interactions
Display of the interactions between the processes to be audited

Requirements analysis
Automatic determination of the degree of coverage of the requirements catalogues

Detail planning

Definition of audit schedules with, among other things, participants, dates, places

Generation of deadlines/appointments
Calender file export for sending to participants

Helpful aids
Import of files, images, links to support in every audit phase

Copying

Copying of audits for a new performance timeframe helps quickly create new audits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Executing Audits

Results backup
Documentation of the findings, incl. verification management (text, images, files, links, etc.)

History documentation

Clear, historical relationship to process structure (N5 Process Solution), incl. automatic audit-compliant archiving with revision security

Causal research

Causal research documentation

Determination of actions

Immediate, corrective and preventive actions

Completeness check
Automatic checking for completeness of the documentation

Requirement assignment

Findings-requirements assignment for audited body of rules

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audit reports and assessments

Automatic reporting

Output of all standard reports (including schedule, requirements catalogue, findings/actions report, audit specifications including summary, final report, 4D/8D report, requirements coverage)

Selection filters
Extensive filer functions for managing audits and audit plans

Export of results
Export to PDF or Excel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action functions

Free definition of assessment systems with audit reference
Freely definable systems (incl. point ratings) for the assessment of findings and the resulting actions in connection with audits

Escalation management
Free definition of the escalation levels, incl. triggering of events

With or without audit reference

Actions management can also be used independently of audits

 

 

 

 

 

 

Management of actions

Supports the common types of actions

Definition of immediate, corrective and preventive actions

Actions planning
Definition of action catalogues with actions, including description, dates, responsibilities, participants, inspectors, priorities, etc.

Results backup
Documentation, incl. verification management (text, images, files, links, etc.)

History documentation

Clear, automatic documentation of progress of the actions life cycle

Actions monitoring

Specific support for participants, e.g. with automatic sending of notifications for events such as escalations

Actions tracking
Extensive selection filters, incl. traffic light display

Actions completion

Effectivity checks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actions reports and assessments

Selection filters

Extensive filter functions for managing actions catalogues and actions

Export of results
Export to PDF or Excel