Create Audit
Explanation
This activity is used to create a new audit. A quality audit is the process of a periodic, independent,
documented, and systematic examination of a quality system carried out by an internal or external quality auditor
to ensure that the organization has clearly defined quality procedures and that it complies with the defined
procedures. When creating an audit it is mandatory to enter a description, an authority, a company, an audit type
and an expected audit date.
An audit can be created in different ways. To create an audit from the:
- From the Audit page: Click the new command, enter information about the new audit
and click Save.
- From the New Audit assistant: Enter detail information about the audit in the
Details step in the assistant. Either click Finish or proceed with the
next step in the assistant in order to add additional information before finishing.
- From a compliance plan item in the Compliance Planning page using the
New Audit assistant: Click Create Audit to access the New
Audit assistant. Enter detail information about the audit in the Details
step in the assistant. Either click Finish or proceed with the next step in the assistant in
order to add additional information before finishing.
- From a business object in the page for the business object using the New Audit
assistant: Click Create Audit in the Attachments section on the
Audit tab to access the assistant. Enter detail information about the audit in the
Details step in the assistant. Either click Finish or proceed with the
next step in the assistant in order to add additional information before finishing the creation.
Prerequisites
- At least one audit authority must have been defined in the basic data for audit authority.
- In order to create a new audit from a business object, the specific business object must have been configured
in the Object Connections page as audit aware by a system administrator.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, an audit in the Planned status is created.