Life Sciences Integrated Warehouse Solutions | FORTNA

Industries: Life Sciences and Healthcare

Life sciences and healthcare warehouse and distribution solutions 

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 organisations 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, labour dependencies and inventory optimisation.

New and evolving challenges add complexity for life sciences distributors

In a complex distribution landscape, healthcare, hospital, pharmaceutical, medical supply, and medical device distributors must navigate a myriad of challenges. From unique storage requirements and labour challenges to regulatory requirements and a dynamically changing market, it’s essential for life sciences distributors to have a warehouse solution that’s ready for anything.

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.

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.

Labour

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

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Customer Case Study

Boston Scientific Optimises 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 centre 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.

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 fulfilment for their business units and design-build three new DCs with requirements for serialisation, security for controlled substances and temperature controls. In just 3 years, they eliminated costly 3PLs and offsite storage, significantly cutting costs and complexity.

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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

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Data-driven solutions to accelerate performance

Data-driven

Scientifically proven proprietary modelling 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 optimise the solution.

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Warehouse automation solutions

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 solutions

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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