SR-5 Acquisition Strategies, Tools, and Methods
Uses acquisition strategy, contract tools and purchasing methods to reduce supply chain risk before it enters the organization.
4
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence of application in real purchases · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Acquisition strategies differentiated by criticality · Document repository
- Contract tools and clauses in use · Vendor register / contract repository
- Supplier selection criteria including security · Vendor register / contract repository
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- one purchasing approach for critical and trivial alike
- clauses available but rarely used
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheet