That's pretty good, Don!

We follow your line of thought, and do not send these things out year after year to established suppliers, and don't write ourselves into doing things like this. I agree that many purchasing folks think the standards MAKE them do this, but it doesn't.
Our volume of surveys seemed to drop about 3 years ago, but we must be back in the update portion of the cycle, because I've received nearly a dozen in the last few weeks. The majority do the smart thing, and only require one to fill out the contact section on the front page, and then send a copy of the ISO cert if the company is registered, or fill out the rest if not registered. But we still see some that want all 2000 pages filled in

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I changed our supplier survey up a few years ago to reflect my philosophy on this also. Fill out page 1, with all the contact info, and send me a copy of your cert if you're registered. If not, 3 more pages of fairly simple stuff about your capabilites in supplying us a quality product. None of the invasive "Give me your last 4 years income, top ten customers, and credit info" stuff that no one really wants to give out. We refuse to post financials in these surveys.
I also love it when a company sends you these 20 page surveys to fill out in detail, but you haven't supplied them in a few years and have no future business booked with them. When I've called and asked the customer, they say, "Well, you're not currently supplying us, but we need to keep you as a certified supplier for our files". This sometimes means that we were dropped because of pricing issues in favor of a foreign, non-registered company, but they want us in their file as a registered supplier. I love it.