Introduction:


In an Checklist, we have Chapters and every Chapter is given a weight based on importance of that Chapter in the checklist by GQA team. This weight is common for all the stores in one country. This is known as Standard weight.


However when audit is conducted on various stores, checklist may be used differently depending on the processes at each store ie may be a chapter is not applicable, then the weight of that chapter is proportionately redistributed into the rest of the chapters based on their importance therefore new weights to all chapters is known as Audit specific weight. This weight is automatically calculated within the system.




For any checklist, standard weight can be found by Chapter--->Audit type-->Checklist--->click Only active and display weight in percentage 


Total weight for any given checklist sums up to 100%, Qaudits system adjusts the checklist automatically to 100% whenever there is any changes made to the weight of the chapter.



How does weight influence in the score of an Audit. 


This can be explained via an example of comparing two audit results where same chapters were used however on the first outlook , audit dated 11.10.22 seems to have faired better than audit date 24.05 (see the breakdown score screenshot)

But in reality due to weight and chapter importance , score turns to be different 


Eg  comaprison between two audits 11.10.22 & 24.05.22






Chapter Name:

Standard Weight:

Audit Specific Weight

Score of Store 1 (without weight)

Final Score of Store 1 

Score of store 2 without weight

Final Score of Store 2

HACCP 

3

4,1

56,2

2,3042

93,8

3,8458

Construction and Facility Management

2

2,7

96,7

2,6109

90

2,43

Human Resources  

2

2,7

91,7

2,4759

100

2,7

Personal Hygiene, Infection Control and Protective Clothing 

2

2,7

87,5

2,3625

78,1

2,1087

Cleaning and Disinfection 

2

2,7

82,5

2,2275

84,1

2,2707

Waste Management & Product Return, Withdrawal, Recall & Food Defense

3

4,1

100

4,1

83,3

3,4153

Calibration

2

2,7

12,5

0,3375

75

2,025

Pest Control 

2

2,7

82,7

2,2329

86,5

2,3355

Foreign Body Control 

2

-

-

0

-

0

Dry Food

3

4,1

83,8

3,4358

90,9

3,7269

Meat General 

5

6,8

-23,2

-1,5776

91,9

6,2492

Meat Processing

14

-

-

0

-

0

Fish 

14

19,2

36,6

7,0272

38,8

7,4496

Dairy and Delicatessen , Eggs and Frozen General 

4

5,5

-17,7

-0,9735

93,1

5,1205

Dairy and Delicatessen , Eggs and Frozen Processing

7

-

-

0

-

0

Bakery General 

4

5,5

93,3

5,1315

98,2

5,401

Bakery Processing

7

-

-

0

-

0

F&V

10

13,7

90,7

12,4259

39

5,343

Delivery

15

20,5

11,2

2,296

-66,2

-13,571

Total




46,4167


40,8502


First column is standard weight, and second column is audit specific weight (the weight of chapters which are not applicable or not checked are redistributed to other chapters, this calculation is done by the system automatically).

 So Final score for each store is calculated by multiplying chapter score with the audit specific  weight and then adding all the results.


In this example the  most important chapter is Delivery with a weight of 20% (because many chapters are skipped, those weights way readjusted proportionately to other chapters) because of this fact that the second store has less score than the first score despite on first outlook it dint look so.