How We Work
FORTNA works with your executive team to identify and understand your business objectives. We start the collaborative visioning process with data collection and use comprehensive, proprietary science-backed tools and algorithms to develop a network strategy that meets or exceeds your cost, service and performance objectives. We work with you to align a broad group of stakeholders around a distribution optimization strategy and roadmap that is agile, executable and supported by a business case.
Your network strategy is the first step to ensuring the business remains agile to respond to change and disruption. A holistic view that considers the upstream and downstream impacts on the entire network can be the difference between success and failure of the enterprise. With FORTNA, the distribution optimization strategy we deliver will be business case justified, implementable, flexible and backed by data science to help you:
Supply chain optimization often falters between strategy and execution, making it harder to achieve high-performing, future-proof operations.
Discover with the FORTNA consultative approach the one-stop partner who truly understands your challenges, combines strategy with hands-on expertise and delivers proven results in building resilient, agile and efficient supply chains.
Let's get startedAt FORTNA, distribution optimization strategy is a powerful data-driven, iterative process that minimizes costs, risks and complexity, while driving the highest levels of service and agility to align with your business strategy. Our comprehensive approach includes:
As part of its Distribution Network Optimization Strategy, FORTNA solution design experts will factor in the cost of facility design alternatives, help you implement the final network and maintain performance with end-to-end lifecycle services.
The FORTNA Network Strategy Tool allows you to visualize and contrast different scenarios and explore alternatives as a part of a complete network refresh or a targeted e-Com strategy assessment. Provide us with a few data points and we will contact you to demonstrate the power of FORTNA’s Network Strategy Tool using your data.
Strategy Solutions
FORTNA brings the convergence of science and art to every project with a deep bench of operations experts to interpret the data, assist with distribution network integration and ensure your distribution optimization strategy uniquely meets current and future requirements.
FORTNA will work with you to determine the most effective configuration of distribution facilities including location, size, geographic coverage, product mix, service and cost trade-offs. We go beyond your typical network design by looking at IT and facility infrastructure and considering the impacts of the strategy decisions on your technology stack and equipment choice. Together, we will develop a roadmap across all workstreams to clearly identify the steps required to achieve your goals.
FORTNA will benchmark your capabilities against the industry, select peers and desired performance. We will identify opportunities, strategies and the business justification to narrow any gaps and drive competitive advantage. We consider how software and equipment can enable or constrain the decisions you make early in the process, so those workstreams are a part of the roadmap right from the start.
You’re out of capacity. Your lease is expiring. Service requirements have changed. Your business is growing. How do you decide what your next step is? FORTNA provides alternative site assessment and analysis leading to a roadmap to support short- and longer-term facility plans with optimization strategies resulting in a justifiable business case.
At FORTNA, we begin with the strategy and then help you implement it. Our Operations Design team is ready with a seamless hand-off when you are ready to begin working through the roadmap we worked together to create, where we identify the steps required to achieve the goals across various workstreams.