Customer ordering to products delivery
(Domestic & Export) Defect product return Defected product destruction ICS (O2C)
- Customer ordering to Delivery procedure/ work instruction/ workflow
- Customer ordering process
- Release blocked over credit granted process
- Product loading process
- Produce delivery process
- Transactions recording
- Compliance with the current procedure/ work instruction/ workflow - Defected products return policy/ procedure/ work instruction/ workflow
- Requests for defected products return
- Defected products return authorization
- Received defected products return
- Transactions recording
- Compliance with the current policy/ procedure/ work instruction/ workflow - Defected products destruction procedure/ work instruction/ workflow
- Requests for defected products destruction
- Defected products destruction authorization
- Compliance with the current procedure/ work instruction/ workflow
- Compliance with the Revenue Department rules and regulators - O2C.COL.KC1: Bank reconciliations are prepared and reviewed on a timely basis.
- O2C.INV.KC1: Accounts receivable sub-ledger is reviewed and reconciled to the general ledger.
- O2C.MMD.KC1.Credit Master: Access to Customer Data is restricted to authorized personnel and modification to critical data is properly approved.
- O2C.MMD.KC1.Customer and Price Master: Access to Customer/Price Master Data is restricted to authorized personnel and modification to critical data is properly approved.
- O2C.MMD.KC1.Customer Master: Access to Customer Data is restricted to authorized personnel and modification to critical data is properly approved.
- O2C.POE.KC1.DOMESTIC: Matching of sales orders, shipments and invoices
- O2C.POE.KC1.EXPORT: Matching of sales orders, shipments and invoices
- O2C.POE.KC2: Overdue accounts receivables are reviewed.
- O2C.POE.KC4: Product prices and margins are authorized or reviewed.
Executive Summary
According to the 2015 approved planning, Operational Risk Management (ORM) reviewed the customer ordering to products delivery processes and also performed the walkthrough process to the current approved ICS relevant with O2C operation of Conwood Thailand (CWT) (9 of 47 ICS) during 04 – 05 June 2015 as details of our reviewed scope as mentioned above.
From our reviewed, we found 10 improvement issues, including non-compliance with the current approved ICS relevant with O2C operation. 10 improvement issues were rated risk levels as below summary table.
Risk Levels Total
Catastrophic Major Moderate Minor Insignificant
- 3 4 3 - 10
Key improvement issues were summarized as below:
• Need enhancement over the reviewing process to sales quotation prior to submitting to the customer (Major) – The current practice is that sales quotation is prepared by Order Taker once it is requested by the customer. However, there was no reviewing process as evidence as signature by their supervisor on quotation prior to submitting to the customer. Lack of this process could lead to inappropriate sales transaction incurred due to invalid sales quotation is signed by customer. Logistic Department Manager commits to define authorized person to review and approve sales quotation, implement a reviewing and signing processes by authorized person on sales quotation and ensure that all issued sales quotation are reviewed and approved by defined authorized person prior to submitting to the customer.
• Non-compliance with Credit Control policy (Major) – Per requirement in Credit Control policy, Any blocked over credit limited to the customer, which has the overdue outstanding balances exceeding 30 days, is requested the Credit Committee which consists of members of Finance Department, Sales Department and Marketing Department to review and approve prior to releasing blocked over credit limited to the customer. From our sampling 2 sales order (No. 2040080768 and 2040080769) to verify, and noted that 2 S/O(s) were not approved by Credit Committee as requested by this policy due to the overdue outstanding balances were 36 days. 2 S/O(s) were approved by Finance and Accounting Manager. Non-compliance with Credit Control policy could lead to increase overdue outstanding balances, break customer relationship due to our following up the payment and finally, increase opportunity loss from selling. Credit Control and AR Section Head commits to strictly comply with the current credit control policy.
• Non-compliance with defected product returning policy (Announcement No. 81/2012) (Major) – According to the request of current defected product returning policy to the defected products returning due to our transportation to the customer stated that Warehouse Division needs to ensure the validity of defected product returned in warehouse prior to further process by signing on D/O to the quantities returned. From our reviewed and noted that Warehouse Division did not consistently perform. In addition, it also requests the summary report of defected products returned due to our transportation to the customers by monthly basis to Logistic Department Manager for charging back to our transportation agency. From our reviewed and noted that there was no summary report of defected product returned due to our transportation to the customers by monthly basis. Non-compliance to this policy could lead to lack of evidence for audit trail and increase risk of repeat issue that increase customer unsatisfactory and operational costs. Logistic Department Manager and Warehouse Division Manager commit to strictly comply with the current defected product returning policy.
• Non-compliance with current ICS (O2C) (Moderate) – According to the requests of ICS no. O2C.MMD.KC1. Credit Master and O2C.MMD.KC1. Customer Master stated that quarterly transaction reviewing process by authorized management is requested, including any adjustment requests for transactions recorded. According to the requests of ICS no. O2C.POE.KC1.DOMESTIC stated that Authorized management needs to monitor long outstanding S/O issued for their further processing and regularly check to ensure the accuracy of tax invoices issued. From our reviewed, those requests in ICS no. O2C.MMD.KC.1. Credit Master, O2C.MMD.KC.1. Customer Master and O2C.POE.KC1.DOMESTIC were not performed by authorized managements. According to the requests of ICS no. O2C.POE.KC.2 stated that Finance and Accounting Manager needs to review and sign on overdue report and Dunning letters must be issued to all customers who have overdue outstanding balances in exceeding 30, 60 and 70 days. From our sampling the period of April 2015 to review and noted that Overdue report was not signed off by Finance and Accounting Manager and Dunning letters were issued based on Credit Control & AR Section Head decision which was not complied with the requests of ICS. Non-compliance with current ICS could lead to unreliable financial statement. Responsible persons commit to strictly comply with ICS.
• Inadequate procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart relevant with stock destruction operations and Non-compliance with the Revenue Department rules and regulators (Moderate) – From our reviewed, there was no procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart relevant with stock. According to the Revenue Department rules and regulators stated that any stock destruction which requests to use the tax benefit is requested the representative person from the Revenue Department (generally be External Auditor) to be witness of defected products destruction which is contrasted with the current practice of Warehouse Division. Per our discussion with Senior Accountant and noted that any cost incurred from defected products destruction (i.e. cost of product, cost of destruction) are grouped as “non-deductible expenses”. However, they did not submit VAT as same as the case of inappropriate stock loss from warehouse to the Revenue Department. Inadequate procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart could lead to incompletely/ inconsistently performed resulting to incorrect or error transactions incurred and Non-compliance with the Revenue Department rules and regulator could lead to face the fine and surcharge payments. Warehouse Division Manager commits to develop related procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart to support the operation and Finance and Accounting Manager consults with Tax Department to find out the solutions.
• Inadequate work instruction/ flowchart relevant with Customer Ordering to Products delivery processes (Moderate) – From our reviewed, the existing flowchart was not sufficient to support the operations of customer ordering to products delivery processes. The existing flowchart is explained only sales ordering process. In addition, the existing flowchart is unclear and there was no work instruction/ flowchart to other processes. Inadequate procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart could lead to incompletely/ inconsistently performed resulting to incorrect or error transactions incurred. Logistic Department Manager commits to develop related work instruction/ flowchart to support the operation.
• Need enhancement over the regularly reviewing to the Conwood Purchasing Order form (Moderate) – From our reviewed, there was no regularly reviewing to the Conwood Purchasing Order form. As a result, the latest reviewed to the Conwood Purchasing Order form was performed on August 1, 2013. Lack of this process could lead to ineffective customer ordering process and increase opportunity loss from selling. Logistic Department Manager commits to implement the annually reviewing process to Conwood Purchasing Order form.
Remark:
Key improvement issues mean the improvement issues which have the risk of moderate levels up.
(See more details in below table)
Observation
Risk Recommendation
Management actions agreed or comments
1. Need enhancement over the reviewing process to sales quotation prior to submitting to the customers 0 Catastrophic 1 Major 0 Moderate
Customer ordering to products delivery (Domestic & Export) Defect product return Defected product destruction ICS (O2C)- Customer ordering to Delivery procedure/ work instruction/ workflow- Customer ordering process - Release blocked over credit granted process- Product loading process- Produce delivery process- Transactions recording- Compliance with the current procedure/ work instruction/ workflow - Defected products return policy/ procedure/ work instruction/ workflow- Requests for defected products return- Defected products return authorization- Received defected products return - Transactions recording- Compliance with the current policy/ procedure/ work instruction/ workflow - Defected products destruction procedure/ work instruction/ workflow- Requests for defected products destruction- Defected products destruction authorization- Compliance with the current procedure/ work instruction/ workflow- Compliance with the Revenue Department rules and regulators - O2C.COL.KC1: Bank reconciliations are prepared and reviewed on a timely basis.- O2C.INV.KC1: Accounts receivable sub-ledger is reviewed and reconciled to the general ledger.- O2C.MMD.KC1.Credit Master: Access to Customer Data is restricted to authorized personnel and modification to critical data is properly approved.- O2C.MMD.KC1.Customer and Price Master: Access to Customer/Price Master Data is restricted to authorized personnel and modification to critical data is properly approved.- O2C.MMD.KC1.Customer Master: Access to Customer Data is restricted to authorized personnel and modification to critical data is properly approved.- O2C.POE.KC1.DOMESTIC: Matching of sales orders, shipments and invoices- O2C.POE.KC1.EXPORT: Matching of sales orders, shipments and invoices- O2C.POE.KC2: Overdue accounts receivables are reviewed.- O2C.POE.KC4: Product prices and margins are authorized or reviewed.Executive SummaryAccording to the 2015 approved planning, Operational Risk Management (ORM) reviewed the customer ordering to products delivery processes and also performed the walkthrough process to the current approved ICS relevant with O2C operation of Conwood Thailand (CWT) (9 of 47 ICS) during 04 – 05 June 2015 as details of our reviewed scope as mentioned above. From our reviewed, we found 10 improvement issues, including non-compliance with the current approved ICS relevant with O2C operation. 10 improvement issues were rated risk levels as below summary table.Risk Levels TotalCatastrophic Major Moderate Minor Insignificant - 3 4 3 - 10Key improvement issues were summarized as below:• Need enhancement over the reviewing process to sales quotation prior to submitting to the customer (Major) – The current practice is that sales quotation is prepared by Order Taker once it is requested by the customer. However, there was no reviewing process as evidence as signature by their supervisor on quotation prior to submitting to the customer. Lack of this process could lead to inappropriate sales transaction incurred due to invalid sales quotation is signed by customer. Logistic Department Manager commits to define authorized person to review and approve sales quotation, implement a reviewing and signing processes by authorized person on sales quotation and ensure that all issued sales quotation are reviewed and approved by defined authorized person prior to submitting to the customer.• Non-compliance with Credit Control policy (Major) – Per requirement in Credit Control policy, Any blocked over credit limited to the customer, which has the overdue outstanding balances exceeding 30 days, is requested the Credit Committee which consists of members of Finance Department, Sales Department and Marketing Department to review and approve prior to releasing blocked over credit limited to the customer. From our sampling 2 sales order (No. 2040080768 and 2040080769) to verify, and noted that 2 S/O(s) were not approved by Credit Committee as requested by this policy due to the overdue outstanding balances were 36 days. 2 S/O(s) were approved by Finance and Accounting Manager. Non-compliance with Credit Control policy could lead to increase overdue outstanding balances, break customer relationship due to our following up the payment and finally, increase opportunity loss from selling. Credit Control and AR Section Head commits to strictly comply with the current credit control policy.• Non-compliance with defected product returning policy (Announcement No. 81/2012) (Major) – According to the request of current defected product returning policy to the defected products returning due to our transportation to the customer stated that Warehouse Division needs to ensure the validity of defected product returned in warehouse prior to further process by signing on D/O to the quantities returned. From our reviewed and noted that Warehouse Division did not consistently perform. In addition, it also requests the summary report of defected products returned due to our transportation to the customers by monthly basis to Logistic Department Manager for charging back to our transportation agency. From our reviewed and noted that there was no summary report of defected product returned due to our transportation to the customers by monthly basis. Non-compliance to this policy could lead to lack of evidence for audit trail and increase risk of repeat issue that increase customer unsatisfactory and operational costs. Logistic Department Manager and Warehouse Division Manager commit to strictly comply with the current defected product returning policy.• Non-compliance with current ICS (O2C) (Moderate) – According to the requests of ICS no. O2C.MMD.KC1. Credit Master and O2C.MMD.KC1. Customer Master stated that quarterly transaction reviewing process by authorized management is requested, including any adjustment requests for transactions recorded. According to the requests of ICS no. O2C.POE.KC1.DOMESTIC stated that Authorized management needs to monitor long outstanding S/O issued for their further processing and regularly check to ensure the accuracy of tax invoices issued. From our reviewed, those requests in ICS no. O2C.MMD.KC.1. Credit Master, O2C.MMD.KC.1. Customer Master and O2C.POE.KC1.DOMESTIC were not performed by authorized managements. According to the requests of ICS no. O2C.POE.KC.2 stated that Finance and Accounting Manager needs to review and sign on overdue report and Dunning letters must be issued to all customers who have overdue outstanding balances in exceeding 30, 60 and 70 days. From our sampling the period of April 2015 to review and noted that Overdue report was not signed off by Finance and Accounting Manager and Dunning letters were issued based on Credit Control & AR Section Head decision which was not complied with the requests of ICS. Non-compliance with current ICS could lead to unreliable financial statement. Responsible persons commit to strictly comply with ICS.• Inadequate procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart relevant with stock destruction operations and Non-compliance with the Revenue Department rules and regulators (Moderate) – From our reviewed, there was no procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart relevant with stock. According to the Revenue Department rules and regulators stated that any stock destruction which requests to use the tax benefit is requested the representative person from the Revenue Department (generally be External Auditor) to be witness of defected products destruction which is contrasted with the current practice of Warehouse Division. Per our discussion with Senior Accountant and noted that any cost incurred from defected products destruction (i.e. cost of product, cost of destruction) are grouped as “non-deductible expenses”. However, they did not submit VAT as same as the case of inappropriate stock loss from warehouse to the Revenue Department. Inadequate procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart could lead to incompletely/ inconsistently performed resulting to incorrect or error transactions incurred and Non-compliance with the Revenue Department rules and regulator could lead to face the fine and surcharge payments. Warehouse Division Manager commits to develop related procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart to support the operation and Finance and Accounting Manager consults with Tax Department to find out the solutions.
• Inadequate work instruction/ flowchart relevant with Customer Ordering to Products delivery processes (Moderate) – From our reviewed, the existing flowchart was not sufficient to support the operations of customer ordering to products delivery processes. The existing flowchart is explained only sales ordering process. In addition, the existing flowchart is unclear and there was no work instruction/ flowchart to other processes. Inadequate procedure/ work instruction/ flowchart could lead to incompletely/ inconsistently performed resulting to incorrect or error transactions incurred. Logistic Department Manager commits to develop related work instruction/ flowchart to support the operation.
• Need enhancement over the regularly reviewing to the Conwood Purchasing Order form (Moderate) – From our reviewed, there was no regularly reviewing to the Conwood Purchasing Order form. As a result, the latest reviewed to the Conwood Purchasing Order form was performed on August 1, 2013. Lack of this process could lead to ineffective customer ordering process and increase opportunity loss from selling. Logistic Department Manager commits to implement the annually reviewing process to Conwood Purchasing Order form.
Remark:
Key improvement issues mean the improvement issues which have the risk of moderate levels up.
(See more details in below table)
Observation
Risk Recommendation
Management actions agreed or comments
1. Need enhancement over the reviewing process to sales quotation prior to submitting to the customers 0 Catastrophic 1 Major 0 Moderate
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