Corporate Real Estate Services

Real Estate is, by nature, a somewhat inflexible, long-term capital commitment. Business requirements for space are typically flexible and, sometimes, volatile. Corporations can position themselves to maximize both efficiency and flexibility of real estate commitments. Avocat Group assists with:

• Strategic Planning Evaluations
• Feasibility Studies
• Corporate Standards and Procedures
• Process Management Services
• Benchmarking & Scorecard Tracking

Avocat Group offers an integrated approach to portfolio management. Our team is comprised of professional portfolio managers who act as the corporate user’s single point of contact. They understand your corporate policies and procedures and maintain a consistent standard with each transaction. This perspective allows for better quality control and streamlined communications by offering four specific benefits:

One professional team manages all transactions and communications. Portfolio managers allocate as much time as necessary on any specific transaction, regardless of size.

Maximum consistency and control is achieved because the same team applies consistent corporate standards throughout the process.

Avocat Group has global strategic alliances in place to manage international requirements. We can maintain and grow your portfolio anywhere you operate.

Time is, very literally, money in any corporate facility project. You need assurances that your project will be completed on time and your business operational – with no unpleasant surprises. Avocat Group’s unique PointLine® Delivery System is a holistic project and construction management methodology that integrates all aspects of a project including:

• Strategic Planning
• Needs Assessments
• Site Selection
• Design
• Construction
• Technology
• Relocation

The result is a fast track process that creates a defined schedule and financial forecast that all stakeholders agree upon at project commencement.

By default, this system facilitates maximum value-added savings and reduces both time and costs of a project by 20% or more. Our PointLine® Delivery System may be implemented in whole, or as a tailored program to augment your in-house capabilities and existing vendor relationships.

We look forward to exceeding your expectations. Your business real estate will be delivered on time and in budget, anywhere. Guaranteed.

Are you good at managing your corporate assets? Whatever your response, our next question is: How do you know? If you are not measuring it, you are not managing it.

Every business has a set of metrics – Key Performance Indicators – that tell a story. The story line relates Total Occupancy Costs (TOC) to corporate strategic goals to create shareholder value.

It also measures less tangible values such as flexibility, time to market, corporate approval processes, and standardization values. Here are the five questions that every business executive should know:

• What are your most/least efficient facilities and what makes them so?
• What is your true cost of facilities (including all related furniture, fixtures, equipment, and technology costs)? Express as a percentage of your total operating expense.
• What is your TOC cost/unit (manufacturing), cost/seat (service), or cost/pallet position (distribution)? What percentage of this cost is spent on unutilized space?
• How do the above numbers compare to your competitors?
• Are your service providers applying best practices to provide you with a competitive edge? How do you know?

The Avocat Group Dynamic Scorecard® provides real time benchmarking and forecasting tools that measure your success – and improved value. It consists of both historical and forward projections, benchmarked internally and externally against peers in your industry. This system allows you to measure, and react to, changes in your business and facility requirements.

M&A transactions provide the legacy by which every management team is remembered. They require fast and accurate due diligence in a multitude of disciplines to develop and implement a successful integration and transition plan. Real estate problems discovered subsequent to the transition lead at best to a loss of flexibility and, at worse, the loss of millions of dollars and a huge economic risk to the firm.

M&A integration consultants are unlikely to provide detailed information and analyses regarding real estate positions of the acquired company, and lack the real estate based experience to accurately determine sublease values, time to market, and rights contained within complex lease agreements.

Avocat Group will help you create a detailed integration plan with respect to offices or distribution centers considering those factors and timed to leverage lease expiration dates and renewal or expansion rights. For companies looking to create a restructuring plan, our financial staff will provide all reference materials necessary to meet auditing requirements.

We help you get your arms around the many moving parts that tie operations to real estate. Avocat Group helps clients to create accurate, timely, and profitable integration strategies.

In a time when natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate, we believe that responsible companies should seek out new ways to reduce their impact on the environment.  It is not only good corporate stewardship, it can also be good for employee satisfaction, productivity, and long term profitability as well.

Avocat Group assists corporations seeking to incorporate sustainability into their real estate strategy. In doing so, our clients are lessening their impact on the environment while achieving cost savings through reduced utility demands, building maintenance expense reductions, and improved efficiency.

We’ve partnered with some of the best LEED® accredited design professionals in the country to identify opportunities to incorporate eco-friendly materials and energy saving devices into both new construction and retro-fit of existing properties.

Whether your intent is to simply make environmentally smart choices related to construction and finishes, or to achieve a LEED® certification rating from the US Green Building Council, Avocat Group is there to help you find innovative, flexible, and comprehensive solutions.

In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven market, your ability to compete is not a function of being big or small, but being fast or slow. By measuring the time and motion of each component of your distribution process, you can identify internal best practices implemented by your own quality people. The design and selection of your facility is perhaps the most critical variable in the fulfillment process. Avocat Group helps you consider macro (external) analysis such as:

• Strategic geographic placement to market coverage
• Impact of labor and energy costs
• Economic incentives, state income and inventory tax, foreign trade zones
• Demographic and competitor analysis

And we’ll perform a micro (internal) analysis to consider:

• Inventory profiling and analysis by activity zone of your present and projected operations
• Inherent efficiency of warehouse height, column spacing, and dimensions of available options
• Warehouse layout and pick zone design options
• Cost/benefit analysis of alternative picking methods
• Slotting and replenishing strategies
• Material handling equipment and fixtures

Avocat Group utilizes a proprietary state-of-the-art decision analysis system to create a custom OverallDistribution Effectiveness™ (ODE™) business process measurement tool.

ODE™ is a comprehensive methodology for synchronizing supply chain initiatives with day-to-day operational requirements.  It implements proven strategies expanded from Six Sigma, OEE, TPM, and other internationally known principles to deliver:

• A method of ranking and rating existing facility and real estate infrastructure,
• A system for measuring the distribution performance of each facility against a common denominator, and
• The ability to improve the performance of each site once selected.

The Avocat Group ODE™ will provide a tangible system of measurement to deliver cost-effectiveness as a standard operating methodology. The system is completely scalable and will assist in developing a systematic road map for reducing time and constraints in your distribution system. By integrating best practices with world-class facility design, you’ll create distribution centers that give your firm a true competitive advantage.