Industries: Third Party Logistics (3PL)
Third party logistics warehouse and distribution operations thrive on value-driven technology solutions that give their customers a competitive edge. Implementing or upgrading automation in a 3PL environment enhances productivity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. FORTNA collaborates with 3PLs to design and implement automation, software and robotics solutions that optimise flexible order fulfillment, reduce reliance on labour and boost capacity.
As your business continues to grow and adapt to changing market demands and products, reliable and flexible technology solutions for order fulfillment become increasingly crucial. At FORTNA, we specialise in designing and implementing 3PL solutions that scale and adapt alongside your business. By partnering with 3PL organisations, we leverage advanced technologies to enhance your order fulfillment capabilities, minimise labour dependency, and increase capacity—giving you a competitive edge in the market.
FORTNA understands these challenges and designs solutions that transform operations
As your SKUs expand and evolve in response to consumer demand, developing flexible order fulfillment capabilities is more crucial than ever. FORTNA partners with 3PL organisations to design and implement adaptable technology solutions that enhance your fulfillment operations, boosting your productivity, efficiency and profitability.
Consumer expectations for endless selection has driven SKU proliferation, requiring a strategic approach to managing capacity for a varied inventory. FORTNA can help you build a best-fit solution from an automation, software and robotics perspective to address a rapidly changing inventory mix.
An aging workforce and shifting generations are creating labour shortages that drive up costs, limit availability and require additional safety measures. FORTNA’s customised solutions are designed to drive efficiency, ensure compliance and meet the evolving needs of your customers.
Insight
Distribution organisations are looking for alternatives to building new automated greenfield facilities; with many turning to maximising and optimising their current brownfield locations. Upgrading processes, software, automation and equipment within their existing warehouses where they can take advantage of new methods and technologies while utilising current material handling assets and effectively extending the life of a facility.
In this FORTNA Insight, we will explore our top ten recommendations for planning and executing a successful brownfield automation project.
Customer Success Case Study
New Era’s existing operation, outsourced with logistics provider Menlo Worldwide (now XPO Logistics), was already near capacity. The business was growing steadily and adding new lines of apparel and accessories. Then the addition of the NFL license doubled volume virtually overnight.
After extensive alternative analysis the agreed upon solution was a retrofit to their current space and implementation of a new method of operations to handle the growth in volume. With the new distribution operation, New Era and Menlo are able to service the NFL business and can continue growing with new licensing partners and markets. Service has improved as orders that used to take days are now fulfilled in hours with greater than 97% accuracy. And the new operations are much more efficient, decreasing operations expense by 30% percent.
XPO Logistics (formerly Menlo Worldwide)
Warehouse and Distribution Solutions with FORTNA
FORTNA leverages automation, software and robotics to enable companies to outpace the demands of tomorrow. We are an end-to-end design-build firm, designing and delivering data-driven solutions to ensure process improvements, growth and, ultimately, profitability.
Scientifically proven proprietary modelling tools and algorithms allow FORTNA to design for maximum efficiency and outcomes.
FORTNA designs solutions with a holistic perspective, considering upstream/downstream impacts on the entire operation and network.
At FORTNA, we identify and select appropriate and best fit technologies to optimise the solution.
FORTNA is your trusted partner for transforming your distribution operation. We help organisations manage labour costs, optimise inventory management, and leverage a wide range of automation solutions. Using our unique data-driven approach, we can identify the best-fit distribution centre solutions to increase productivity, manage SKU proliferation and optimise warehouse processes.
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Intelligent software is essential to optimising operations for maximum efficiency, reliability and flexibility. With an equipment and supplier agnostic approach to software, FORTNA designs and implements innovative and high-performance solutions for customers to power their operations with fast and accurate order fulfillment.
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