Hi,
I was wondering if someone was able to offer me some advice relating to internal audits. We are a BRCGS packaging materials site, currently we audit all our management system SOPs annually, however, due to a decrease in the number of internal auditors we have I am looking at making our internal audit schedule a little smarter. We have management system SOPs which relate to the standard clauses and then we have process SOPs which we are the actual instructions on how to carry out particular tasks. Our audit schedule is for the management system SOPs.
We have 50 management system SOPs which we audit once a year. My question is, do we need to do all these audits? The BRCGS standard says that all processes shall be audited at least annually. Is there anything that can be condensed/combined?
We also carry out a gap analysis every year against the BRC clauses, is this something that should be done every year or just when there is a change?
I have been looking at this for so long that I am confusing myself.
Thank you