I'm wrestling with appealing it or just let it stand and add those points to my MR template. I currently have the inputs listed, upper mgmt and I discuss them one by one. We did not discuss anything that would require more resources (human or any other). We are a bulk material supplier so we do not design product. We are provided a print of a part by our customer and make that part for our customer. We are very heavily involved in CONTINUAL improvement, so much that we believe we are leaders in our particular industry, in which we use resources that we already have.
My fear is that I make a name for ourselves (not the good kind) with auditors of this registrar and it's taken out on us in the form of more findings. In this case, it was this auditor's 2nd day on the job with this registrar and he had his boss observing him. We ended up with 8 minors versus our average of, maybe, 2. I will request that this particular auditor not be used again.
We went through this sort of thing last year when the auditor was speaking from the section that deals with service parts? He wondered if we ever went to any of the local auto parts stores and inquired about problems that affect parts that include product that we make? We told him we do not make service parts. He wound up dropping that one and found two others.. :/