After completion of the audit, evaluations are essential to detect potential for improvements. In addition to the auditing evaluation, in which the auditing program is checked for its effectiveness, a performance evaluation of individual auditors and the auditing team should be carried out in order to identify potential areas of optimization in the auditing process.
As such, the requisite questions post completion of the SCRM audit are:
Monitoring and Controls:
Documentation | Have all documents required by the auditor been prepared or made available? |
Are the audited documents/evidence available in sufficient quantity? | |
Has a comprehensive SCRM audit report, including improvement recommendations as well as a description of the current state, been prepared? | |
Filing |
Were all important results of the SCRM audit secured in writing? |
Were all important results of the SCRM audit secured electronically? | |
Evaluation of the SCRM audit program | Was the number of sites to be audited appropriate? |
Was the selection of staff for the face-to-face interviews appropriate? | |
Was the number of interviews conducted adequate? | |
Were the appropriate SCRM auditing methods selected? | |
Were the performances of the auditor and SCRM audit teams evaluated? |
Improvements:
Improvement Measures | Does the final audit report contain a satisfactory number of quality suggestions for SCRM improvements? |
Have milestones for concrete SCRM improvement measures been set? | |
Have the key implementation responsibilities of these concrete improvement measures been defined and assigned? | |
Have the key responsibilities for the monitoring and maintenance of these implemented improvements been defined? |
Extract from Schröder, M. (2019): Structured improvement of supply chain risk management. In: Supply Chain Management – Contributions to Procurement and Logistics, Series-Editor: Essig, M.; Stölzle, W., Kersten, W., Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden