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Industries: Food and Beverage

Warehouse and distribution solutions for food and beverage

Growing consumer demand continues to drive operational transformation for food and beverage retailers and distributors. Keeping pace with today’s challenges and planning for tomorrow’s disruption is critical when optimizing eCommerce and micro fulfillment capabilities. FORTNA partners with food and beverage companies to maximize productivity gains, efficiencies and profitability. Our unique solution design methodology, coupled with implementation expertise, solves industry issues of capacity constraints, labor dependencies and inventory optimization.

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Evolving customer demand and order fulfillment models drive change

The food and beverage industry continues to experience fundamental operational shifts to meet evolving consumer demands. FORTNA partners with food and beverage companies to design and deploy solutions that boost e-commerce capabilities, managing various picking formats—pieces, cases, layers, and pallets—optimize labor, and increase capacity—all while adapting to fluctuations in demand.

Food and beverage industry challenges

FORTNA understands these challenges and designs solutions that transform operations.

Labor

An aging workforce and shifting generations are creating labor shortages that drive up costs, limit availability and require additional safety measures. FORTNA’s customized solutions are designed to drive efficiency, ensure compliance and meet the evolving needs of your customers.

Labor and Automation

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.

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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 productivity gains and profitability.

Fulfillment solutions

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Taking Stock of Food and Beverage

Automation has probably never been more important to food and beverage as it is buffeted by a range of forces that challenge historically thin margins. Russ Meller, FORTNA’s Principal Scientist, speaks with Modern Materials Handling.

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Customer Success Case Study

Adding capabilities that create competitive advantage

A national wholesale food distributor wanted to grow its 3PL channel that offers temperature-sensitive food distribution to companies. FORTNA helped them design-build several automated DCs that will add capabilities that will drive competitive advantage in the market. With the new 3 DC network, they will increase order volume by 5x, quadruple their SKU assortment, cut costs and accelerate fulfillment.

Under trying circumstances, FORTNA delivered their project on time, under budget and most importantly, the savings exceeded the original estimate.

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North American Consumer Goods Company

Customer Success Case Study

FORTNA helped Vistar leverage automation to increase efficiency, eliminate redundancy, increase capacity and achieve the scale needed to deliver on service level goals by consolidating retail and e-Commerce fulfillment into two new facilities.

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FORTNA can help food and beverage companies design an operation that can meet their unique business needs today and into the future

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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