An audit is only as credible as the person who ran it. Fast Audit qualifies each auditor against a criteria framework — category, specification and score — records their eligibility and evidence, and sets the authorised audit-types matrix that decides who may conduct what. Sent for Plant Quality Head approval and authenticated, an auditor becomes selectable in the plan. Nobody audits outside their competence.
An auditor is qualified against criteria, evidenced, authorised for specific audit types and signed off — before they can be assigned to any audit in the plan. Competence is a record, not a reputation.
"He's done audits for years" is not a competency record. Each candidate auditor is scored against a criteria framework: a criteria category — education and training, audit experience, standard knowledge, independence — a specification under it, and a score from the score master. The competency entry captures the auditor's eligibility, qualification and qualification details, and a due date for re-qualification, so competence is an evidenced, dated record. Only an eligible, authorised auditor can be picked in the audit plan.
When a certification body asks how you know your auditors are competent, "we just do" isn't an answer. Supporting evidence — lead-auditor certificates, training records, qualification documents — is attached to the auditor's competency record as evidence files, stored on the platform's document subsystem. The evidence lives with the auditor, so it is there when a customer or auditor of your system asks to see it, and it links to the same document control the rest of the audit programme uses.
Being a good ISO 9001 auditor doesn't make someone a supplier auditor. The authorised audit-types matrix records exactly which audit types each auditor may conduct — ISO 9001, IATF 16949, EHS, supplier or product — and that authorisation is what the plan checks at assignment time. An auditor is only selectable for an audit whose type they are authorised for, so nobody is ever allocated outside their competence, and the matrix keeps in step with auditor assignment in the plan.
Scoring an auditor doesn't authorise them; the Plant Quality Head does. Once scored and their audit types set, the record is sent for approval and the approval-and-authentication step signs the auditor off as competent and authorised — only then are they available in the plan. From there a plant-wise auditor list shows who is authorised at each site, and an auditor score report shows how each auditor scored against the framework, so the quality function can see, at any moment, who may audit what and on what evidence. Those same names flow to the auditor dashboard.
Criteria category, specification and score masters define how competence is measured — a consistent framework, not one manager's judgement.
Score each auditor against the framework, record eligibility, qualification and qualification details, and set a re-qualification due date.
Attach certificates, training records and qualification documents to the auditor, stored on the platform's document subsystem.
Record which audit types each auditor may conduct — the authorisation the plan checks so nobody is assigned outside their competence.
Send for Plant Quality Head approval; the authentication step signs the auditor off as competent and authorised before assignment.
A plant-wise auditor list of who is authorised where, and an auditor score report across the criteria framework — always current.
An auditor list on a noticeboard tells you names, not competence. For the fundamentals, read what is audit management software?
Each candidate auditor is scored against a criteria framework: a criteria category, a specification under it, and a score from the score master. The competency entry records the auditor's eligibility, their qualification and qualification details, and a due date for re-qualification, so competence is an evidenced record rather than an assumption. Only when an auditor is marked eligible and authorised can they be assigned to an audit in the plan.
Supporting evidence — lead-auditor certificates, training records and qualification documents — is attached to the auditor's competency record as evidence files. Because it uses the platform's document control subsystem, the evidence is stored with the auditor and available when a certification body or customer asks how you know your auditors are competent.
The authorised audit-types matrix records which audit types each auditor may conduct — for example ISO 9001, IATF 16949, supplier or product audits. It is the authorisation that decides who can be assigned to what: an auditor is only selectable for an audit whose type they are authorised for, so nobody is ever allocated outside their competence.
Once an auditor is scored and their authorised audit types set, the record is sent for approval to the Plant Quality Head. The approval and authentication step signs the auditor off as competent and authorised. Only then are they available in the plan for assignment, so authorisation is controlled, not implicit.
Yes. A plant-wise auditor list shows the qualified, authorised auditors at each plant, and an auditor score report shows how each auditor scored against the criteria framework. Together they let a quality function see, at any time, who is authorised to audit what, and on what evidence. Fast Audit runs cloud or on-premise, for manufacturers of every kind, across India and worldwide.
Live demo of criteria scoring, evidence, the authorised audit-types matrix and Plant Quality Head sign-off — on your own auditors. Cloud or on-premise, no generic slideshow.
