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Build scalable, compliance-ready medical device distribution operations

Medical device organizations operate in highly regulated environments where traceability, inventory integrity and execution control are critical to operational performance and compliance readiness.

FORTNA helps medical device manufacturers and distributors modernize operations through integrated strategy, proven automation, intelligent software and lifecycle services designed to improve visibility, strengthen traceability and support scalable growth.

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Scale operations with complete control

Medical device operations require disciplined processes that support serialization, lot and batch control, quality release workflows and global distribution complexity.

FORTNA partners with organizations to:

  • Maintain traceability across inventory and distribution flows
  • Support serialization and lot control requirements
  • Improve inventory visibility and integrity
  • Strengthen quality hold and release processes
  • Scale operations while maintaining compliance readiness
  • Manage complex product handling requirements
  • Reduce operational and regulatory risk

FORTNA helps organizations build scalable operations that improve visibility, execution consistency and distribution control across the network.

Solve key medical device distribution challenges

FORTNA understands these challenges and designs solutions that transform operations.

Traceability and compliance

Serialized inventory, lot control and recall readiness require defined operational processes and execution controls. FORTNA helps organizations strengthen traceability compliance to ensure critical products are available when and where they’re needed. Strategic slotting, accurate tracking and holistic warehouse design all contribute to compliance.

Strategic Slotting

Inventory visibility and operational control

Limited inventory visibility, inconsistent inventory controls and disconnected systems increase operational and regulatory risk. FORTNA improves inventory integrity and execution control through system integration, warehouse execution software and process optimization designed to improve operational consistency and visibility.

Intelligent software

Scalability and network complexity

Growth, acquisitions and expanding product portfolios can strain distribution networks and create operational complexity across facilities. FORTNA optimizes distribution networks, improves storage density, reduces storage footprints by up to 75% and implements scalable automation that supports long-term growth without unnecessary expansion.

High-density storage

Best-fit solutions designed for medical device distribution

FORTNA combines a consultative approach, proven automation, intelligent software and lifecycle services to improve operational performance while supporting traceability and compliance objectives.

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

Network strategy and ongoing support

FORTNA evaluates distribution networks, optimizes facility operations and designs scalable strategies aligned to growth, compliance and service requirements. Our team ensures your operations remain reliable, productive and aligned after initial design and implementation.

Our optimization framework includes:

  • Distribution network strategy
  • Comprehensive assessments
  • 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
Our approach
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Flexible automation solutions for medical device 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 flow, traceability and material handling across medical device distribution operations.

Whether incorporating automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) for high-density storage, goods-to-person (GTP) technologies to improve picking accuracy, 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 improves efficiency while maintaining operational control and supporting complex manufacturing and distribution requirements.

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Intelligent software for medical device distribution

Medical device 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 operational visibility and execution control across distribution operations, helping ensure work is prioritized, inventory movements are traceable and resources remain synchronized.

Rather than managing individual technologies separately, FORTNA WES™ orchestrates workflows across automated equipment, systems and labor resources. By coordinating material movement, supporting serialized inventory and lot control processes, balancing workloads, managing exceptions and integrating disparate warehouse technologies, the software helps improve operational control while supporting inventory integrity and traceability throughout the distribution process.

By improving operational control and visibility, organizations can standardize workflows and strengthen scalability across manufacturing and distribution operations through a connected, data-driven system.

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FAQs

Medical device organizations can improve traceability through standardized workflows, warehouse execution software, serialization controls, lot and batch tracking and integrated operational visibility. FORTNA helps organizations design distribution operations that strengthen traceability and support compliance-ready processes.

Medical device organizations commonly face challenges related to serialization, lot control, inventory visibility, quality release workflows, mixed product handling, regulatory requirements and global distribution complexity. Many organizations also struggle to scale operations while maintaining operational control and compliance readiness.

Automation improves operational efficiency, consistency and scalability across complex product environments. Technologies such as AMRs, ASRS, goods-to-person systems, and sortation solutions can help organizations improve throughput by 3x while maintaining inventory control with 99.9% picking accuracy and complete operational visibility.

Warehouse execution system (WES) software helps coordinate workflows, balance resources, manage automation systems and improve operational visibility. FORTNA WES™ helps medical device organizations improve execution control, workflow consistency and traceability across warehouse and distribution operations.

Serialization and lot control help organizations maintain traceability, support recall readiness, improve inventory accuracy and meet regulatory requirements. Strong execution controls and operational visibility are critical to maintaining compliant distribution operations.

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.

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