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Managing issues such as nonconformance, exceptions, loss-events, and process deviations is one of the central functions of an organization's quality, compliance and risk management units. Relying on stand-alone point solutions or paper-based processes to manage issues is ineffective as they fail to address systemic problems due to a lack of broad enterprise reach and visibility. To successfully handle such incidents, managers need a powerful automation and collaboration tools as review and remediation activity often spans across departments.

MetricStream Issue Management software module is a comprehensive solution that enables companies to establish and follow consistent procedures for issue capture, loss event tracking, task management, and status reporting. The issue management solution supports identification and evaluation of issues as well as case investigation and tracking leading to an elaborate remediation or corrective action process. The powerful analytics along with issue tracking and reporting functionality with graphical dashboards give managers complete real-time visibility into the quality and compliance system and provide critical information for reducing the risk of noncompliance. The system also

supports the regulatory reporting and submission process with decision trees that identify reportable events.
  • Accelerate issue recording, review and approval cycles as incidents automatically move from one stage to the next
  • Reduce repeat occurrence with consistent and closed-loop investigation remedial and corrective action process
  • Improve communication and teamwork on exception cases across departments and functional areas
  • Gain enterprise-wide visibility into the status of issues and incidents and track related process metrics
Issue Management: Features

Issue Recording: MetricStream Issue Management module allows logging of an issue and assigns a unique case number that can be used to track the incident as it goes through various stages. It captures detailed information about the issue and supports categorization of issue type based on pre-defined criteria and severity level and identification of the responsible unit. The module also supports correlation with past data for quick analysis and decision on the need for remedial action.

Review and Reporting: The system routes the issue for review and analysis to authorized users based on pre-configured rules for review, approval, and disposition. The applications decision tree functionality supports identification of reportable events as well as the type of report that needs to be filed. The process of reporting is simplified as the system automatically generates mandatory reports in formats and layouts prescribed by the regulatory bodies. The reports are generated in standard file types such as MS Word and can be further worked on before being submitted.

Investigation and Remedial Actions: MetricStream issue management tool enables triggering automatic alerts and notifications to appropriate personnel for initiating immediate remedial action to contain the impact of the issue and conduct failure investigation to identify root cause. The investigation is driven by collaborative workflows that ensure responsiveness by assigning investigative tasks to an individual or a team with due dates based on severity level. Once a corrective action or remediation is initiated, the case remains open till the action plan is carried out and results verified for effectiveness. Managers can track the status of the case as it automatically moves from one stage to the next based on organizations procedures.

Reports and Metrics: Executive dashboards provide enterprise wide visibility into the issue management process and highlight high-priority cases that need to be addressed. The solution provides complete real-time visibility into the issue and exception data with analytics for trend analysis. Reports for status tracking, scorecards and compliance dashboards can be readily accessed. Graphical executive dashboards and flexible reports with drill-down capability provide statistics and data by a variety of parameters such as business units, processes and divisions.


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