AUDIT-READY PROCUREMENT
Make each purchase easier to reconstruct.
Audit-ready procurement means keeping the business need, authority, supplier decision, order, receipt, invoice and accountable people connected before a reviewer asks for them.
Control questions
- Document the need before commitment
- Apply accountable approval authority
- Record competition or the approved exception
- Link order, receipt and invoice evidence
- Preserve an attributable timeline
Evidence to retain
- Requisition and line items
- Approval decision and policy context
- RFQ, quotations and award rationale
- Purchase order and acknowledgement
- Receipt, invoice, exceptions and file note