Thanks for all the replies on this one. Now I am going to throw a twist into the mix. We are being Audited. We have a key measureable that we will meet sales and on time delivery. When we did not meet these in October, our Management reviewed the situation and initiated a CAR. We (the team) have met and started our
8D process. We, through brainstorming, data collection, etc. developed three reasons for our root cause. Manning, scheduling, and material, we have a customer that will only firm up our orders for four weeks out and suppliers that have a 16 week lead time. This is a given evil, so we have to work around this. Anyway, we have now taken our CAR team and divided into these three categories, that will meet and come up with plans for these root causes. These teams will come back together and put together the big plan for the CAR so that we can implement and measure. Here is my dilema, my auditor is telling me that since I came up with three root causes and did this divide, even though we are coming back together, that I am supposed to close that CAR and have the teams open up CAR's. This kind of sounds like we are chasing our tails at this point. PLEASE ADVISE. RANDY, I would really like your help on this one.