Industries: Medical Supply

Build resilient medical supply distribution operations

Medical supply distribution is facing growing pressure to ensure product availability, improve fulfillment accuracy and control operational costs amid SKU growth, labor shortages and rising service expectations.

FORTNA partners with organizations to modernize distribution operations through integrated strategy, proven automation, intelligent software and lifecycle services that improve fill rates, reduce backorders, increase productivity and create scalable capacity across networks.

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Improve service levels while streamlining complexity

Medical supply distribution is built around speed, inventory availability and fulfillment accuracy. High-volume fulfillment, frequent replenishment cycles and large SKU assortments place significant pressure on warehouse operations and labor resources.

FORTNA partners with organizations to:

Maintain fill rates and order completeness
Reduce stockouts and backorders
Improve inventory accuracy and traceability
Increase labor productivity
Create capacity without unnecessary facility expansion
Standardize processes across multiple distribution sites
Reduce fulfillment and cost-to-serve pressures

FORTNA helps organizations design and optimize operations that improve performance while supporting long-term scalability and operational resilience.

Solve key medical supply distribution challenges

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Labor availability and productivity

Manual workflows limit scalability, increase costs and create operational inefficiencies. FORTNA improves labor productivity through process redesign, workflow optimization, warehouse execution software and flexible automation that reduce manual processes and improve operational performance, providing 3x higher daily order throughput.

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Inventory visibility and accuracy

Inventory discrepancies and limited operational visibility can lead to stockouts, backorders, fulfillment delays and service disruptions. Maintaining accurate inventory and order completeness is critical. FORTNA improves inventory visibility through warehouse software integration, operational standardization and real-time warehouse execution capabilities.

Intelligent software

Capacity and network optimization

SKU growth, increasing throughput demands and multi-site distribution complexity strain storage density and operational consistency. FORTNA optimizes distribution networks and implements scalable solutions that increase capacity, improve storage density, reduce storage footprints by up to 75% and support long-term operational growth without expansion.

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Best-fit solutions designed for medical supply distribution

FORTNA combines a consultative approach, proven automation, intelligent software and lifecycle services to improve operational performance across your distribution network.

FORTNA Distribution Optimization Framework Lifecycle Performance Services supports a diverse portfolio of MHE and software implementations worldwide

Distribution network strategy and ongoing support

FORTNA evaluates current operations, identifies capacity constraints and develops scalable distribution strategies aligned to your business goals. Our team ensures your operations remain reliable, productive and aligned after initial design and implementation.

Our optimization framework includes:

Distribution network strategy
Assessments, die in die Tiefe gehen
Facility planning and layout optimization
Data-driven business case development
Throughput and capacity analysis
Inventory flow optimization
Standard operating model development
Lifecycle performance services for ongoing optimization

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Flexible automation solutions for medical supply distribution

FORTNA develops vendor-neutral automation strategies that combine best-fit technologies into an integrated solution tailored to your operation. Rather than implementing a single technology, we design systems that work together to optimize inventory storage, material flow and order fulfillment across distribution networks.

Whether incorporating automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) for high-density storage, goods-to-person (GTP) technologies to streamline picking, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to increase operational flexibility or conveyors and sortation systems to move product efficiently, each solution is seamlessly integrated to support your business objectives.

The result is a scalable automation solution that reduces manual travel and touchpoints, improves picking efficiency and increases operational capacity while supporting changing demands.

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Intelligent software for medical supply distribution

Medical supply distribution depends on intelligent software that connects people, processes and automation into a single, coordinated operation. The FORTNA warehouse execution system (WES) provides real-time visibility and execution control across distribution networks, helping ensure work is prioritized, resources are balanced and operations remain synchronized.

Rather than managing individual technologies separately, FORTNA WES™ orchestrates workflows across automated equipment, systems and labor resources. By coordinating material movement, balancing workloads, managing exceptions and integrating disparate warehouse technologies, the software helps optimize performance throughout the fulfillment process.

By improving operational control and visibility, organizations can reduce inefficiencies, improve throughput and support more consistent service performance through an agile, data-driven system.

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FAQs

Medical supply distributors can improve fulfillment accuracy and service levels through enhanced inventory visibility, standardized warehouse workflows, intelligent software and automation technologies that reduce manual handling and picking errors. FORTNA helps organizations improve fill rates, reduce backorders and increase order completeness across high-volume fulfillment operations with 3x higher daily throughput.

The biggest challenges in medical supply distribution include labor shortages, rising fulfillment costs, SKU growth, inventory accuracy issues, warehouse capacity constraints and increasing service expectations. Organizations must also maintain product availability while managing operational complexity and service continuity.

Automation improves medical supply distribution by increasing productivity, improving picking accuracy by up to 99.9%, reducing manual travel and creating additional capacity. Technologies such as AMRs, ASRS, goods-to-person systems, and sortation systems help organizations scale fulfillment operations while improving operational performance.

A warehouse execution system (WES) is software that coordinates warehouse workflows, labor resources and automation systems in real time. FORTNA WES™ helps medical supply organizations improve operational visibility, optimize warehouse execution and increase fulfillment efficiency.

Organizations can increase warehouse capacity by improving storage density, optimizing warehouse layouts, redesigning workflows and implementing warehouse automation technologies such as ASRS and goods-to-person systems. These strategies help create additional throughput and storage capacity within existing facilities, reducing storage footprints by up to 75%.

Customer Success Case Study

Boston Scientific optimized 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 healthcare products, the placement of these items within the distribution center must consider a variety of factors.

Learn how FORTNA helped Boston Scientific:

Reduce 135 replenishments per week
Decrease manual travel by 248,768 feet per area per week
Improved space utilization for maximum storage capacity

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Customer committed. Outcome obsessed.

From early strategy through system design, delivery and integration, we work alongside our customers to keep operations on track and performing—especially in times of change. We select the best-fit, solution-agnostic technologies for each operation and bring them together into one unified ecosystem that works as one.