Fullmetal Enterprise is a family-owned manufacturer of automail (a type of advanced prothetic limb). Fullmetal’s products are sold to healthcare providers throughout the United States and Europe. An excerpt of its production cycle follows:

“Finished automail and raw materials, as well as inventory records, are kept in the inventory storeroom managed by Alphonse Elric. Alphonse performs a daily review of the items on hand by monitoring the inventory subsidiary ledger and determining whether additional materials are needed. If they are, Alphonse prepares a materials requisition form to submit to the production planning and control (PPC) department.

The PPC department is led by Edward Elric. Upon receipt of a materials requisition form from Alphonse, Edward files the form. Edward’s files contain not only the materials requisition forms received from Alphonse, but also sales forecasts received from the sales department managed by Winry Rockbell. These files are monitored on a daily basis; if there is a match between the needs identified by both the inventory storeroom and sales, a bill of materials and a routing slip are prepared and forwarded to the production room. If inventory quantities for supporting materials are sufficient, a production schedule is prepared and forwarded to the production room. If materials are needed to support production of the items, a purchase requisition is prepared and forwarded to the purchasing department and inventory storeroom”

Required
Describe three internal control weaknesses and three internal control strengths.

Use the following format to answer the question. Failure to properly identify weaknesses and internal control strengths will reduce the score you earn for answering the question. Also, make sure that both the weaknesses and strengths you identify can be specifically tied to the narrative (Note that neither “mitigating controls” nor threats are requested).

Format
Weakness 1: Here goes your first control weakness

Weakness 2: Here goes your second control weakness

Weakness 3: Here goes your third control weakness

Control strength 1: Here goes your first control strength

Control strength 2: Here goes your second control strength

Control strength 3: Here goes your third control strength