My team is receiving dozens of food safety questionnaires per week. These are darn close to paper audits that we are to fill out and return as part of their qualification procedures.
It takes roughly 2 people working full time to fill in and return these documents. Some of them are 50-80 pages long. Like I said, they are pretty close to "fill it in yourself" desk audits. We are a distributor and have adequate food safety records, but sometimes the questions get into super minutia that require detailed conversations with our vendors.
I know from talking to colleagues that this is becoming even more common than it was in the past. I was wondering if anyone had any Grand Sweeping Knowledge that might help me better address this with my team so I am not burning up 2/3 of 3 people's days filling in forms. We have played with the idea of sending stock answers, sending certifications, setting a "floor" of sales where we will do this level of documentation (if you buy a truckload a day, absolutely. If you buy a 10kg bag a year, no way).
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.