You are in an operations management class working on a team project. Your team is designing a new manufacturing floor for a cardboard processing company. The company uses large rolls of cardboard as raw materials and processes them into finished boxes and cartons used for product packaging by other manufacturing companies. Your task is to describe the way people and machinery can most efficiently interface, and how to control the processes. Your team knows you have just finished a cost accounting class and looks to you for “expert” input. They do not realize that your auditing class might help design data collection and control processes.
Describe some ways that the documentation of start and stop times on the machines can be accomplished through IT mechanisms. Give examples of ICFR that should exist for each IT mechanism to be effective and secure.