Advisory Services
Leading shippers, transportation companies and logistics firms turn to TransDevelopment for strategic advisory services that deliver tangible, value-driven results.
Our experienced advisors help clients early in the initial marketing and planning stages of projects and they provide business-optimization consulting to give clients a leg up on the competition.
For more information about our suite of services, please find our table of contents below.
Services Offered
- Business Development and Planning
- Proposal-Based Marketing
- Facility Management Reviews
- Capital Budgeting
- Feasibility and Due Diligence
- Fatal Flaw Analysis
- Marketing Services
- Site Selection
1. Business Development and Planning
TransDevelopment plays a key role creating and implementing business development initiatives for clients. The combined experience of our business units in Portland, Atlanta, Mexico City and London adds tremendous value to take advantage of industry and specific business opportunities. Our experts provide a suite of advisory services that help a variety of clients – ports, carriers, terminal operators and logistics providers – to optimize distribution centers and terminal facilities, conduct competitive analysis of business sectors, develop business plans and spearhead proposal-based marketing initiatives.
2. Proposal-Based Marketing
TransDevelopment can prepare and present detailed capital development budget reports. Our costing is authoritative and based on nationwide experience. We apply the correct "technical veneer" to plan rehabilitation, schedule maintenance and validate new construction budget proposals.
3. Facility Management Reviews
A comprehensive inventory and review of existing facilities provide essential information clients can use to benchmark against "industry practices" – and business-unit objectives. Utilizing detailed reviews, our advisors can make recommendations and provide a blueprint for planning, design and construction.
4. Capital Budgeting
TransDevelopment's budgetary experience spans both private and public sector projects.
TransDevelopment provides a valuable service to clients: clear, concise and flexible capital budgets. Too often, traditional engineering-oriented budgets provide a review of potential construction costs, but they have excessive detail for the business unit manager. Our budgets are refined to meet the client's specific reporting and analysis requirements. In any presentation format, our costing is authoritative and based on current construction projects throughout the U.S., Mexico and the U.K.
5. Feasibility and Due Diligence
TransDevelopment provides an objective "reality check" to ensure that there are sound business reasons for moving ahead with projects or initiatives. These services include market analysis, preliminary real estate evaluations, review of local government/business climates or other factors unique to projects.
6. Fatal Flaw Analysis
Prior to any on-site work, our advisors establish that projects are both "buildable" and cost-effective. One week of critical review up-front can save thousands of dollars later to engineer out of a bad situation.
7. Marketing Services
Unlike other advisors, TransDevelopment has a unique ability to blend into and support our clients' marketing programs. We regularly produce presentation drawings, proposals packets, and make formal written and oral presentations to enhance our customers' marketing efforts.
8. Site Selection
TransDevelopment's role as a distribution facility developer has been strengthened by our broad experience in industrial siting, distribution center optimization and real estate property transactions. Our staff members routinely support the corporate real estate departments of our clients with a variety of confidential services ranging from GIS-based mapping to field-based site searches, technical feasibility studies, due diligence and direct negotiations with property owners.
