Good Business Growth – practical and effective..

25 Thursday Sep 2014

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Business Growth, Robert Vernon Associates, supply chain costs

Robert Vernon Associates’ business vision is very much a commitment to Good Business Growth, not just because its the nice thing to do but the logical choice for success, whether our clients are buyers or suppliers. What are the goals that we and our clients work with:

Price Development managed and supply chain costs are transparent
Social and Environmental Compliance Transparent – An Efficiency Driver.
Quality: Reduction in Cost of Poor Quality (waste) and increased Customer Experienced Product Quality
Increased Product Availability at point of sale.

If you are a Buyer anywhere in the world or the factory in the supply chain, you are constantly grappling with one or all of the above! We can help you and your organisation to work with these issues in a practical and effective way to achieve Good Business Growth.

Please review our site and contact us if we can be of service..

Mark K.

2 Day Good Business Growth Training Course

19 Friday Sep 2014

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brand protection, Environmental assurance, Management Consultancy and Training Development Providers, supply chain management

Robert Vernon Associates announce the availability of a 2 day Training Course: Supply-chain Security, Brand Protection, Risk Reduction – Achieve Good Business Growth. Please click the link below for full details:

RVA Training Course Autumn_Winter 14

Dates and venue details to be announced for Winter 2014/15 at London, Manchester, Cardiff and Dublin.

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Four Key Areas of Good Business Growth

12 Friday Sep 2014

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The business requirements of compliance and brand protection in Quality, Social and Environmental assurance are now very well understood in the business community. However, the implementation and application in organisations are very often within silos of function and outside the daily commercial operations of sourcing, buying, production and supply chain management. This is a lost opportunity to create a good business and provide fantastic growth opportunities for all stakeholders. Robert Vernon Associates are Management Consultancy and Training Development Providers. We want to help and support International Sourcing organisations and their vendor factories by working with clients in the 4 keys areas of Good Business Growth. Mark K.

Welcome to Robert Vernon Associates.

05 Friday Sep 2014

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Robert Vernon Associates are led by its Director Mark K. Astley who has over 30 years of production and international sourcing experience. 22 years in IKEA Trading and Tesco International Sourcing as a senior manager working mainly in developing regions of Asia and Eastern Europe. He was part of the team that developed the ground breaking IKEA Way of Purchasing Home Furnishings products – The IWAY. It was during his years with IKEA that he and fellow co-workers developed the IKEA Competitive Advantage and The Virtuous Circle. These were developed to drive the Quality, Social and Environmental issues into the daily IKEA Trading and IKEA of Sweden business activities.

The aim has always been to move Quality, Social and Environmental Assurance from a cost perception to actually a way of working and mind-set to increase and improve profitability. To achieve Good Business Growth

For the last 10 years Mark was based in South Asia; living and working in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, responsible for business development – working for ‘Good Business Growth’.

Robert Vernon Associates now look to spread the tools and ideas of Good Business Growth into the wider business community though our management team and network of Associates. We are dedicated to improve the lives of all stakeholders from the factory operator, the local communities, client co-workers, company owners and of course the final user – the Customer.

Can we help you? Please take time to review this site. Do not hesitate to contact us for more details and a discussion on how we can work together for Good Business Growth….

Mark.Astley@robertvernon.org