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B2B Vendor Relationship Resilience During the Pandemic
Assesses how a specific vendor, supplier, or business partner performed during pandemic-era disruptions — reliability, communication, pricing, and flexibility — and which changes have stuck since. An AI follow-up interview digs into the specific incident that made or broke trust, going beyond the overall rating to the moment that mattered.
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13 questions · ~7 min
Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired
Overall, how did your organization's relationship with this vendor change during the pandemic (2020-2022)?
- Significantly improved
- Somewhat improved
- Stayed about the same
- Somewhat worsened
- Significantly worsened
Q03
MatrixRequired
During pandemic-related disruptions, how much do you agree with each of the following statements about this vendor?
5 rows × 5 columns
- Communicated proactively about delays or changes
- Maintained delivery or service reliability
- Offered flexible payment or contract terms
- Kept pricing stable and predictable
- Provided responsive customer or technical support
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q04
Opinion ScaleRequired
How did this vendor's overall performance during pandemic disruptions compare to your expectations?
Scale: 1 – 10
Min:Performed far below expectationsMax:Performed far above expectations
Q05
Multiple Choice
Which of these pandemic-era changes with this vendor has your organization kept in place?
- Remote or virtual onboarding and sales calls
- Digital ordering or invoicing tools
- Contactless or flexible delivery options
- Self-service support portals
Q06
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required
When deciding whether to continue working with this vendor through pandemic disruptions, which factors mattered most and which mattered least?
- Price stability during shortages
- Delivery speed and reliability
- Proactive communication about disruptions
- Ease of digital or online ordering
- Dedicated account support
- Flexible payment or contract terms
- Consistent product or service quality
- Willingness to adjust order volumes on short notice
Pick best & worst per setBest:Mattered mostWorst:Mattered least
Q07
Point AllocationRequired
Thinking about your decision to keep working with this vendor, distribute 100 points across the factors below based on how much weight each one carried.
- Cost or pricing
- Reliability of supply
- Communication quality
- Flexibility of terms
- Digital or self-service capabilities
- Personal relationship with rep
Allocate 100 points
Q08
AI Interview
Reconstruct the single most memorable moment in this vendor relationship during the pandemic — anchor on the overall relationship-change rating the respondent gave earlier and ask them to walk through a specific incident (a delay, a shortage, a communication failure or a standout save) rather than a general impression. If they said the relationship worsened, probe exactly what happened and whether it was ever repaired; if it improved, probe what the vendor did differently and whether that behavior has continued since. Push for concrete details: dates, what was promised, what was delivered.
Q09
Opinion ScaleRequired
Based on your experience during the pandemic, how likely are you to recommend this vendor to another business facing similar disruptions?
Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q10
Multiple Choice
What is the approximate size of your organization?
- 1-10 employees
- 11-50 employees
- 51-200 employees
- 201-1,000 employees
- 1,000+ employees
- Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice
Which best describes your role in decisions about this vendor?
- Procurement or purchasing
- Operations
- Finance
- Executive or ownership
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice
Which industry best describes your organization?
- Manufacturing
- Retail or e-commerce
- Healthcare
- Professional or financial services
- Construction
- Technology
- Prefer not to say
Q13
Message
That's everything — thank you for sharing this. Your responses will be combined with others to help us understand which vendor behaviors built trust under pressure and which changes are worth keeping for good.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
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Auto report
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Why this template
What this template is built to do — we found no directly comparable template from other survey tools to review.
What sets it apart
- Includes a dedicated AI follow-up interview that reconstructs the single most memorable moment in the vendor relationship, going beyond a static rating to the specific incident that built or broke trust
- Uses a constant-sum exercise and max-diff question to force tradeoffs on what actually drove the decision to keep or drop a vendor, rather than relying on agreement scales alone
- Combines a matrix of pandemic-specific vendor behaviors (reliability, communication, pricing, flexibility) with a direct before/after comparison and a recommend-likelihood score for a full performance picture
- Captures which pandemic-era changes (pricing terms, communication cadence, flexibility) have actually stuck, plus firmographic and role context to segment findings by company size, industry, and buying role
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