Diversity in types of audits

Auditing can be applied in different processes with a variety of goals. Not surprisingly, auditing is given a variety of names. Don't get confused and refuse to accept a different audit with a different auditor in every field. A good planning of the combined actions of auditing can save you lost of time, and thus money.

A widely used diversification in audits distinguishes between internal, external and certification audits.

This distinction can also be found in standards for management systems according to ISO and in the NEN-ISO 19011, the standard for auditing management systems.

Internal auditing is the self investigation of a company regarding own organization and processes. External auditing reflects the investigation by a customer or supplier, that is aimed at approval, service level agreements, of aimed at improving the performance in the supply chain.

Certification audits can only be executed by a certified body or certified auditor, to approve your system (or product) officially against a specified standard of guideline.

Other diversification in auditing merely specify what is the scope of the audit:

In an operational audit, the audit-scope is the primary process in the organization or part of that.
A process audit is the general term of a audit of organizational processes.
A supplier audit is an audit of processes in the organization and at the location of one of your suppliers, to review supplier processes that link to your own processes and to ensure your companies requirements can be met by the supplier.
The scope of supply chain auditing is larger than with a supplier audit. Supply chain auditing is meant to tune processes in the supply chain in order to generate benefits for all parties involved.
A value chain audit has the same purpose. The value chain defines a range (chain) of processes with strategic importance which explicitly add value over the (independent) parties involved. Parties in a value chain aim at long term collaboration and strive to a balanced growth of value in their chain.
A value chain focuses merely on streams of information, services and money than solely on product delivery.
A scope of a project audit is the project as a special process in one organization or with multi-company participants.

Because the "status aparte" of a project in many organizations and the large impact of projects on the organization, reviewing projects on a regular basis is a must to secure the quality goals of your projects.

Audare has multi-focus

Your organization encounters a growing number of "systems" to maintain. In order to have the system-cycle – the plan-do-check-act cycle – in place, all of these systems use auditing as their independent check mechanism. But this can put a heavy load on your auditing capacity.

Audare uses a multi-focus look in auditing of management systems which is time and cost saving and largely improves the overview of corrective actions and rating these actions

In our globalized, networking business world, it is obvious that processes within your company only can account for part of the success in your company: choosing the right partners and knowing what how their processes interconnect within the total value chain is of utmost importance.

Audare is a process audit specialist, both inside or outside your companies boundaries, as well in the supply chain as the value chain.