ROI Comparison – Automated Vs Manual Audit

This page provides an insight into the benefits of performing an automated site audit project over a traditional manual, paper based audit together with the dramatic reduction in man-hours / man-days required to implement the audit program.




Benefits of Automation over Manual Audits

The bullet points below show a summary of the major benefits provided by the implementation of an Automated Audit Project:

Reduced time to complete each audit

Reduced time to complete the audit project

No need for manual data entry following paper audit / no data entry mistakes

Cost reduction for the entire audit project

Data in unified DB for export / integration with existing OSS/BSS services

Data available immediately following the site audit completion

Data exportable as integrated PDF site reports

Data consistency improvement from selecting options and not typing data

Audit trail for each engineer / supplier / site / location / data / images

Engineer cannot manually” alter or manipulate collected data

Integrated Portal based Project Management / Scheduling / Progress / Quality



Man-Day Reduction – Audit Engineers / Data Entry team

In the example below, we are showing the project wide man-day reduction (Audit Engineers & Backoffice Data Entry Team) in a sample audit of 1,000 sites.


Task Description Manual Audit
(Man Days)
Automated Audit
(Man Days)
Audit Engineers – Manual Paper Audit @ 2 sites per day 500
Audit Engineers - Automated APP Audit @ 3 sites per day 334
Backoffice Team – Data Entry of collated paper audits @ 2 hours per site 250 0
Project Management – Manual Audit @ 60 Mins – Automated Audit @ 30 Mins 125 62
TOTAL MAN DAYS to COMPLETE 1,000 Site Audit Project 875 396

In the sample 1,000 site audit project, technical man-day reduction of 60% is achieved.

Additional Cost and Efficiency Savings

In addition to the huge Man-Day cost reduction for the technical implementation of the site audit program, there are numerous additional efficiency and cost saving when implementing an APP based Automated Audit:

No need to print Audit data input packs for each site audit (1,000 x 20 pages @ 2 cents per page [Paper/Toner/Collation])

No need to ship Audit data input packs to remote audit engineers

No need to collect completed Audit data input packs from remote locations

Collected Data available as soon as it is uploaded – No delays due to shipping time and data entry time

Realtime Project Management and Status Reporting