FEATURE ARTICLE, OCTOBER 2009

BENEFITS OF TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES
TranSystems highlights the benefits of exploring transportation strategies for real estate companies, developers, and distribution center owners and operators.

Planning and designing for the movement of goods helps shippers and distributors effectively meet their goals in the manufacturing, storing and shipping of goods. Having the right mix of transportation for your facility – freight rail, trucking, ports and aviation – can optimize efficiency, access and capacity, improving all aspects of an organization. And the more options a company has for the movement of goods locally, regionally and nationally, the more there is opportunity for continued growth.

TranSystems works with clients such as real estate companies, developers and owners in the shipping industry to provide comprehensive strategies for design and implementation for the efficient movement of goods and materials both inside and outside the warehouse or distribution center box. It is vital that investors and developers understand and utilize customized strategies combined with existing assets to positively impact workflow, logistics flow, workforce, balance sheet, profit and loss, regulatory environment, government and even public and/or customer relations. Having the appropriate business elements in place will contribute to getting the right shipper or distributor into the right facility, creating a recipe for success for each stakeholder involved.

Having an expert that provides transportation consulting services for railroads, airports, ports and departments of transportation will offer invaluable insight to a company while preparing a market assessment and master planning strategy.

From concept to installation, the world of shippers and distributors is all about flow. The premise is to move products down the supply chain from raw material to the point of sale without delays, detours or hitches. TranSystems offers numerous services, including transportation and distribution modeling, warehouse operational analysis, material handling, and supply chain management and logistics. These services allow real estate developers, investors, shippers and distributors to maximize the value of operations by matching facility and distribution capabilities to emergent market needs.

With movement as a central focus, transportation planning, real estate and management and supply chain consulting services can improve a company’s bottom line. TranSystems recognizes the challenge and the promise of a successful distribution facility is tied to the science of movement, whether that is moving raw materials or finished products from source to consumption.

The need to connect people and places overrides traditional hurdles. The ultimate benefits from utilizing transportation consulting services that span all modes are providing a full range of architectural, engineering and planning; management and supply chain consulting; transportation security; and transportation real estate consulting include identifying and executing innovative solutions that can leverage modal interoperability.

Tom Rohr is assistant vice president at TranSystems’ office in Kansas City, Missouri.

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