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Industries: Life Sciences and Healthcare

Warehouse and distribution solutions for life sciences and healthcare

Growing customer demand, market regulations and multi-channel order fulfillment continues to drive operational transformation for healthcare, medical device and medical supply companies. FORTNA partners with organizations to design and deploy solutions that deliver productivity gains, efficiencies and profitability. Our unique solution design methodology, coupled with project implementation expertise, solves today and tomorrow’s issues of capacity constraints, labor dependencies and inventory optimization.

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Evolving supply chain challenges add complexity for life sciences distributors

In a complex distribution landscape, healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical supply, and medical device distributors must navigate a myriad of challenges. Life sciences distributors face unique storage needs, labor challenges, regulatory demands, and a rapidly changing market. To navigate these complexities, it's essential to have a warehouse solution that minimizes labor dependency, increases capacity, and optimizes inventory management.

Life sciences and healthcare industry challenges

FORTNA understands these challenges and designs solutions that transform operations.

Capacity

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.

High-Density Storage

Accurate order fulfillment

As your SKUs continue to increase and the demand for your products continues to grow, it has never been more critical for accurate order fulfillment. FORTNA helps improve and transform your fulfillment operations with flexible and efficient solutions, addressing multi-channel order fulfillment profitability.

Fulfillment solutions

Labor

Significant changes in labor dynamics are driving companies to do more with their existing workforce, reduce labor costs and accommodate evolving regulations. FORTNA’s customized solutions are designed to help solve labor issues and drive efficiency, ensure compliance and meet the dynamic needs of your customers.

Labor and Automation

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Customer Case Study

Boston Scientific Optimizes Inventory with FORTNA OptiSlot DC™ Software

With Boston Scientific’s advances in science and technology, SKU proliferation continues to grow. Considering the delicate nature of many of the company’s life science products, the placement of these items within the distribution center must consider a variety of factors.

Slotting items strategically, taking product size, type and velocity into account, is crucial to operating a life science distribution operation safely and effectively.

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Customer Success Case Study

Eliminate outsourcing costs and make distribution a core competency

A global healthcare company needed to transform their distribution operations to handle considerable growth in their Pharma and Medical Device divisions. FORTNA helped them consolidate fulfillment for their business units and design-build three new DCs with requirements for serialization, security for controlled substances and temperature controls. In just 3 years, they eliminated costly 3PLs and offsite storage, significantly cutting costs and complexity.

FORTNA helped us reduce risk in this highly visible project.

Pharmaceutical Industry Executive

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.

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FORTNA can help transform fulfillment operations to enable flexibility and address digital disruption and growth objectives

Data-driven solutions to accelerate performance

Data-driven

Scientifically proven proprietary modeling tools and algorithms allow FORTNA to design for maximum efficiency and outcomes.

Holistic approach

FORTNA designs solutions with a holistic perspective, considering upstream/downstream impacts on the entire operation and network.

Best-fit technology

At FORTNA, we identify and select appropriate and best fit technologies to optimize the solution.

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Warehouse automation solutions

FORTNA is your trusted partner for transforming your distribution operation. We help organizations manage labor costs, optimize inventory management, and leverage a wide range of automation solutions. Using our unique data-driven approach, we can identify the best-fit distribution center solutions to increase productivity, manage SKU proliferation and optimize warehouse processes.

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Intelligent software solutions

Intelligent software is essential to optimizing 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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Warehouse and distribution solutions for life sciences and healthcare

Evolving supply chain challenges add complexity for life sciences distributors

Life sciences and healthcare industry challenges

Capacity

Accurate order fulfillment

Labor

Boston Scientific Optimizes Inventory with FORTNA OptiSlot DC™ Software

Eliminate outsourcing costs and make distribution a core competency

FORTNA helped us reduce risk in this highly visible project.

Representative Customers

FORTNA can help transform fulfillment operations to enable flexibility and address digital disruption and growth objectives

Data-driven solutions to accelerate performance

Data-driven

Holistic approach

Best-fit technology

Warehouse automation solutions

Intelligent software solutions

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5 Steps to Building a Business Case for Automation

Essential Steps to Automating Your Brownfield Warehouse

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