Automated Audit Management: Mitigate Risk And Increase Audit Productivity

Source: Sparta Systems, Inc.

Life science companies are taking a more organized approach to audit management. They're leveraging technology that enables holistic end-to-end automation across their entire auditing process and their global organization. These solutions also integrate auditing capabilities as part of a larger quality management philosophy. This approach greatly reduces the time and cost necessary to complete audits and results in better information.

An automated audit management solution incorporates electronic workflows, email notifications and collaboration tools to automate each step in the audit lifecycle. Unlike paperbased systems, no steps are missed because an electronic system can easily track each task based on the type of audit. Automated audit management systems also ensure that issues are resolved appropriately.

A holistic, end-to-end solution will automate the following steps in the audit process: Plan, Schedule, Perform Audit, Report, Action Tasks and Close-out. The automated audit solution should seamlessly integrate all of the related individual quality systems and processes to allow life science organizations to create a closed-loop process, from scheduling and managing the audit to closing out the CAPA. When information is passed from one step to the next seamlessly and without manual oversight, manual data re-entry and the accompanying errors are eliminated, which speeds the audit process.

Founded in 1994, Sparta Systems, Inc. is the industry leader for Enterprise Quality Management Solutions. Its roduct, TrackWise®,is used by companies around the world to ensure compliance, improve control, reduce risk and lower costs by consolidating issues and actions, automating workflow, and facilitating trending and reporting. Additional information about Sparta Systems and TrackWise can be found at www.spartasystems.com.