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This article explains the NC Management management workflow concept designed for the IATF CARA Tool. Apart from ensuring standardized reports and adding business logic checks for the report creation the Cara Tool IATF CARA supports a software based completion of NC Actions.

This enables the IATF CARA Tool to offer support for entering that data by the organization while avoiding changes on NC Management management reports created in Excel. Additionally all data is still available in raw form for analytics.

IATF CARA offers a special version called IATF CARA Tool Versions for NC ManagementNC CARA which focuses only on the NC management report and the functionalities the organization needs to complete it.

• IATF CARA Tool (cara.iatfglobaloversight.org)

  • The IATF CARA Tool for CBs and Auditors for creating and managing reports

  • NC Management management reports are directly linked to a report which they belong to

  • NC Management management reports can be exported on their own for Organizations

  • Offers the possibility to import NC CARA Management reports send by the organization

  • All NCs can be managed separately and also exported and imorted seperately

• IATF NC CARA NC Management Tool (nc-cara.iatfglobaloversight.org)

  • The IATF NC CARA Tool for Organizations enables the import of NC Management management reports send by auditors

  • Multiple NC Management reports management reports can be managed

  • All NCs can be managed separately and send to different branches of the company

  • Separate reports can be joined before sending back to auditor or send separately

Interaction between auditor and organization

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The Diagramm above shows the interaction and the data structure for NC Management management process. The NC Management management report consists of a header , and a list of OFIs (Opportunities for Imporvement), PAs (Positive Aspects) and NCs (NC Actions). The NC Actions part is split into three parts the CB-Auditor part, the Organization data part and the Cb data part. Each part can only be completed by the responsible people person for that part. The IATF NC CARA Tool is used to complete the Organization organization part for the NC Actions all other data can’t be changed.

1. The NC Management management report is created by the Auditor auditor who completes all data including the CB Auditor auditor part for all NC Actionsactions.

2. After completing the NC Management management report he can use the “Save NCs for organisation” organization” button” or “Save report” both function functions will create an nc NC management report file. The create NC for organisation “Save NCs for organization” function will help with an additional instruction.

3. After completing the NC Management management report he sends the report to the organization including the link to the IATF NC CARA Tool. The send process is not part of the IATF CARA Tool and can be done using E-Mail or Cloud Storage etc.

4. After receiving the link and the NC Management management report the organization can load/import the received report into the IATF NC CARA Tool.

5. Now the report is available for being completed entries within the organization. The NC Management Separate NCs from the NC management report can be as well saved/exported and passed on to other departments. The IATF NC CARA Tool will be always able to load/import that report and joing the NCs. The only fields which can be changed are limited the organization part of the NC Actions actions all other fields are blocked for changes.

6. After the organization has completed the organization part for NC Actionsactions. The report is saved/exported and send back to the auditor. All data will be part of the report including attached files (which are limited to pdf and jpeg for security reasons)

7. After receiving the NC Management management report the auditor can import the NC Management management report back to IATF CARA using the “Import customer NC Management management report”. The Cara Tool will automatically find the right NC Mangement report and replace the data. If the report is missing from IATF CARA it has to be loaded/imported , back. Using the “Load customer NC Management” management” functionality limits the imported data to the organization part of NC Actions. This will avoid any manipulation of auditor data by the organisationorganization.

This process can be repeated as often as required if the auditor rejects the NC Actions actions provided by the organization. On each report the old organization data is replaced by the new data provided by the organization. If the organisation organization data is imported a second time the old data is kept if changes were made so the auditor can check the made changes.