Our clients are diverse and typically are placed at the top of their industries. Industries where we have in-depth experience include:

» Biotechnology/Diversified Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical companies are facing uncertainty and cost pressure at an unprecedented level today. The mandate for RE & FM organizations is to increase scalability, efficiency, and asset utilization. UMS has been retained by leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies on a number of landmark FM improvement efforts on a global scale. Our tools and expertise has helped bio-pharmaceutical companies improve internal business partnerships, efficiency, process effectiveness and agility in complex cGXP environments. In particular, UMS has helped clients in this sector understand competitive benchmark performance, develop process effectiveness, define core competencies, and develop outsourcing strategies for non-core activities in the context of cultural readiness. UMS brings an in-depth understanding of the inter-relationship between FM services and the core scientific discovery, development, and manufacturing processes.

» High-Tech
In the high-tech sector, UMS has worked with semi-conductor, software, storage telecommunications, and other high-technology companies on initiatives to enable RE&FM better support business cycle requirements. Given the high degree of revenue volatility, RE & FM has to become more scalable in tune with the ramp-up and down-cycle nature of the sector. In addition, improvement initiatives have to ensure that reliability of class1 clean room operations and high-purity systems, so vital to continuous business operations, are not compromised. UMS has worked with leading companies in this sector on a variety of issues such as creating more variable RE cost structures, measurement methods, developing global management tools, and implementing outsourcing within fabrication and technology testing environments.

» Financial Services
UMS has worked with leading financial institutions to improve operations and lower occupancy costs. Financial institutions face unprecedented efforts for reducing costs. To do so, legacy operating models, practices, and sourcing approaches need to be re-evaluated. In light of increasing maturity of supplier markets, integration of services, and consolidation of RE and FM organizations, financial institutions face new opportunities today in Real Estate. UMS has significant experience in helping financial institutions implement novel outsourcing strategies, develop performance measurement systems, and assess operational processes.

» Consumer Packaged Goods
UMS has worked closely with companies on RE&FM initiatives across both manufacturing plant networks as well as office, lab, and commercial sites. Today, consumer goods companies are seeking leveraged RE & FM strategies in both centralized and decentralized structures. As they consolidate, consumer goods companies seek to develop more strategically positioned RE organizations that are shifting away from tactical roles. UMS has worked closely with leading consumer goods companies to develop RE & FM organizations capable of pursuing global and regional strategies that reduce cost and add greater value to the core business. For plant networks, UMS has implemented diagnostic studies as well as plant network outsourcing initiative for non-core plant services.

» Industrial Manufacturing
For industrial manufacturing plant networks, it is vital to ensure that non-core infrastructure services are acquired at market competitive cost and delivered with no impact to the core production process. Plants provide a number of unique challenges for FM services such as remote locations (which limits access to labor pools and contractor competition), shared labor pool, and high risk environments. Within these complex settings, UMS offers expert cost reduction solutions for plant networks including operational diagnostic assessments and outsourcing solutions. Our FM experience in plant settings is unmatched.

» Healthcare
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are tremendous users of facilities services and use 2.5 times more energy per square foot than commercial office buildings. The rising costs of healthcare are driving health care companies to seek cost reductions aggressively in FM. UMS brings specialized tool-kits and novel approaches to RE & FM solutions in healthcare.

» Public Sector
The public sector can benefit from access to leading commercial practices and solutions. UMS brings its wealth of private sector experience to offer public sector organizations RE & FM solutions centered around site consolidation, FM operations diagnostic assessments, and innovative, performance based contracting and outsourcing methods.