FORTNA is an end-to-end design-build firm, delivering transformative, data-driven distribution solutions to the world’s leading brands. We empower our clients with the design and delivery of intelligent solutions that optimize performance, address disruption and increase profitability.
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FORTNA develops the optimal solution for your business challenges. Our unique approach allows us to identify and select best-fit technologies that meet your business requirements.
Whether your business wrestles with e-Commerce fulfillment and returns, omnichannel commerce or the complexities of local micro-fulfillment, our solutions improve performance today.
By centralizing the storage and transportation of inventory in a central facility from which goods are distributed to multiple regional warehouses when required, the Central Hub/Last Mile Depot model optimizes truck loading and thus, transportation, as orders are consolidated and dispatched with routes optimized to decrease shipping costs.
FORTNA’s central hub and last mile depot solutions allow companies to fast-track same-day deliveries by streamlining the final piece of your shipping and delivery process.
By arming your distribution operations with a central warehouse that’s used to catering various destinations – whether that’s customers, stores or other smaller warehouses – central hub and last mile depot solutions play an important part in supply chain strategy, helping you minimize your overall transportation costs.
By integrating the FORTNA Central Hub/Last Mile Depot model into your distribution operations, you can help your warehouse improve transportation productivity and simplify the shipping process, all while boosting your inventory traceability and achieving efficient inventory control. The result: lower transportation costs and a superior delivery experience for customers.
The promise of a simple, fast and efficient returns process is now critical to the happiness of the e-Commerce customer, especially when purchasing goods online without the opportunity to see, touch, try on and experience products in a physical storefront. But for distribution centers and warehouses focused on optimizing every square foot of available space, the prospect of organizing this wave of returns can significantly impact productivity and overall efficiency.
A cross-docking solution with built-in quality assurance checks aids in overall customer satisfaction by allowing warehouse staff to sort and distribute items as ordered, rather than having to dedicate large amounts of space in the warehouse to storing products in bulk to be placed in storage.
Cross-docking provides greater flexibility and efficiency in managing the flow of returns and provides warehouses with a better system for balancing both incoming goods for distribution and products being returned by customers.
FORTNA applies a lean supply chain model to cross-docking to simplify the extremely complex operation of working with inventory that is coming in, being sorted and simultaneously directed to various destinations to minimize costs, leverage labor and increase efficiencies.
Companies have an increasingly large returns problem. Since e-Commerce purchases are returned at a much higher rate than in-store purchases, as e-Commerce grows, so will the average rate of returns. How you address this challenge impacts profitability. It’s time to think about handling returns with the same level of efficiency as your fulfillment operation.
Rapid deployment of returned merchandise to saleable inventory is essential. Returns can be a strategic differentiator and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.
e-Commerce demand continues to experience exponential growth, creating new distribution challenges for companies to navigate. FORTNA designs and delivers solutions to address:
FORTNA enables order fulfillment operations close to your customer. The flexible, scalable AutoStore fulfillment solution maximizes capacity and performance so you can:
AutoStore offers a high-density storage solution to increase the speed, accuracy and responsiveness to dynamically changing e-Commerce demand. At FORTNA, we begin with your business requirements and apply our proprietary Distribution Optimization Framework to design a data-driven solution with AutoStore and our intelligent software. The result is fast and accurate order fulfillment and a realized competitive advantage. AutoStore fulfillment solutions are ideal for operations with:
Micro-fulfillment offers one solution to increase the speed, agility and responsiveness to dynamically changing e-Commerce demand. At FORTNA, we begin with your business requirements and apply our Optimization Science™ to deliver a data-driven design that includes best-fit technologies and intelligent software.
FORTNA places order fulfillment operations close to your customer.
Order fulfillment requirements will continue to change at a rapid pace. Omnichannel consumers expect fast, flexible order fulfillment, anytime, anywhere, adding complexity and additional strain on distribution operations. FORTNA can help transform omnichannel fulfillment operations to handle increasing requirements for speed, accuracy and flexibility.
Flexibility to pivot based on shifting business landscape and changing order profiles, FORTNA will optimize operations across channels with best-fit technologies and intelligent software.
Amazon has raised the bar for fast and accurate order fulfillment. Customers expect immediate availability of inventory regardless of where it sits in the network. FORTNA will help design your omnichannel operations for responsiveness.
Leverage a single pool of inventory for the optimal fulfillment location and method. FORTNA solutions are designed to locate inventory and fulfill orders from the most advantageous node in the network, resulting in reduced inventory and working capital.
FORTNA helps companies transform distribution for increased resilience and agility by:
e-Commerce has drastically changed consumers’ expectations for the time it takes to pack and ship a product directly to the customer’s homes. Higher order volumes coupled with turnover-prone labor force facilities to use software technology, such as FORTNA OptiSlot DC™ and best-fit solutions designed to maximize system utilization to meet the higher demand of order fulfillment. FORTNA can help efficiently organize, pick and sort products to minimize downtime and efficiently get products out of a facility.
Facilities utilize shipping and packing technologies, such as FORTNA OptiSlot DC™, to meet the higher demand for shorter e-Commerce delivery times.
When items need to be moved due to changes in product demand, seasonal or promotional activities, failure to keep up with these fluctuations can cause a degradation in fulfillment performance and a waste of location capacity. Warehouses can benefit from reduced labor expenses, controlled replenishment, reduction in partial order shipments and improved space utilization with advanced slotting software.
FORTNA helps you optimize your warehouse operations to meet fluctuations in e-Commerce demand.
Here are the telltale signs that indicate your DC would be a good candidate for automating the receiving and picking operations with slotting:
Sortation is essential for supply chain systems to run smoothly with the rise in labor shortages, SKU variability and e-Commerce distribution demands. FORTNA offers a broad range of conveyor and sortation solutions that can create a more responsive operation to effectively handle high volumes of cases or totes with speed, accuracy and high throughput.
FORTNA oversees all aspects of conveyor and sortation systems in-house, handling design, engineering, installation, fabrication, software and controls to bring together all elements of a complete, tightly integrated solution. This expertise optimizes product flow and makes the most of limited floor space and labor in greenfield and brownfield projects.
As the pressure increases on distribution operations to perform at or exceed expectations, the demand for higher order volumes and shorter processing times continues to grow. To adjust to this changing reality, companies need to implement smarter and more efficient sortation solutions to sort large quantities of inventory contained in a wide variety of package sizes and types. FORTNA provides comprehensive and unique sortation systems designed to streamline your sortation process for optimized results with minimized operations costs.
We identify and select technologies that uniquely meet your business requirements. The result is a comprehensive, flexible solution that delivers the promised business results.
In a labor-constrained market, reducing excess walking or travel is the lynchpin to more efficient operations.
自动引导车辆(agv)和自治obile Robots (AMRs) can move freely around obstacles, allowing for the movement and transportation of materials without the need for additional labor or permanent conveyor systems. That enables increased productivity, reduced labor costs and damage and scalability to support growing operations.
FORTNA works with top AMR and AGV manufacturers across a variety of different solution types to design flexible, scalable, and modular operations that meet your business requirements.
AGV and AMR units can be integrated seamlessly within even low-density environments and low-volume, high-complexity sorting applications. These solutions are available in a wide variety of configurations and can carry heavier payloads with greater flexibility and safety than previous generations of these technologies.
AGVs offer a wide array of compatible interfaces to work with existing equipment and facility design, while AMRs are focused on transportation use cases based on eliminating wasted travel, driving higher productivity and lowering overall fulfillment costs:
The FORTNA Distribution Optimization Framework leans into your data and our proprietary processes, tools, and algorithms to design and deliver solutions using best-fit mobile solutions.
We work with a deep bench of partners, but our unique approach allows for a truly innovative and holistic design that leverages best-in-class technologies, without bias toward any manufacturer or supplier. We can help you select appropriate technologies and work collaboratively with the chosen supplier to optimize your solution for exemplary business results.
FORTNA WES™ intelligent software optimizes the design and allows you to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for compounded gains in efficiency and insights. This unique software platform makes it possible to integrate solutions from virtually any type of equipment and swap out technologies without having to make expensive and time-consuming updates to your existing systems.
High-volume distribution centers need high-density pallet-based storage and retrieval systems for the best use of space and increased speed, accuracy and efficiency. Pallet-based AS/RS can also serve as the backbone of an automated reserve area in a fulfillment center.
FORTNA pallet-base顶级制造商的工作d AS/RS, automated deep-lane pallet shuttle systems and robotic solutions to design scalable and modular operations that meet your business requirements.
自动存储和检索系统是理想的for increasing operational performance without increasing your building footprint. Inventory accuracy and reduced shrinkage make these ideal solutions for high-volume inventory. The optimized flow of material and just-in-time replenishment eliminates unnecessary inventory, reducing your total cost. Today’s solutions also work well in ambient, chilled or freezer environments and are ideal for a variety of industry segments and applications for manufacturing and distribution.
The FORTNA Distribution Optimization Framework™ leans into your data and our proprietary processes, tools and algorithms to design and deliver solutions using best-fit mobile solutions. We work with a deep bench of partners, but our unique approach allows for a truly innovative and holistic design that leverages best-in-class technologies, without bias toward any manufacturer or supplier. We can help you select appropriate technologies and work collaboratively with the chosen supplier to optimize your solution for exemplary business results.
FORTNA WES™ intelligent software optimizes the design and allows you to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for compounded gains in efficiency and insights. This unique software platform makes it possible to integrate solutions from virtually any type of equipment and swap out technologies without having to make expensive and time-consuming updates to your existing systems.
AutoStore offers a high-density storage solution to increase the speed, accuracy, and responsiveness to dynamically changing e-Commerce demand. At FORTNA, we begin with your business requirements and apply our proprietary Distribution Optimization Framework to design a data-driven solution with AutoStore and our intelligent software. The end result is fast and accurate order fulfillment and a realized competitive advantage.
In the face of increasing SKU variety and throughput demands, conveyor systems must be flexible and durable to sustain the critical functions of the supply chain. At FORTNA, we specialize in designing, manufacturing and integrating roller- and belt-driven conveyor and singulation solutions that are customized to meet the unique requirements of your operation, ensuring that downstream automated processes operate efficiently.
One of the most pressing challenges in modern operations is the need to save space while maintaining productivity. Our conveyor systems are designed to have a space-efficient footprint, while still allowing for future expansion as your business grows. We recognize that minimizing downtime is crucial, so all our systems are engineered with ease of maintenance in mind.
我们的双向输送机的设计提供了一个增加ed layer of flexibility, enabling your line to handle both inbound and outbound operations with equal efficiency. We leverage our deep industry expertise and years of experience to help you achieve your throughput and quality goals across a wide range of operations from greenfield projects to retrofits. Our solutions are optimized for the efficient, singulated flow of cartons, polybags, totes and pallets and are tailored to meet the specific demands of your business.
Our conveyance technologies are versatile, and designed to handle a variety of product sizes, weights and shapes to help you increase productivity and maximize efficiency in your distribution process.
High-volume e-Commerce fulfillment operations need high-density storage and retrieval systems for the best use of space and increased speed, accuracy and efficiency. Advances in goods-to-person automation coupled with the streamlining of operational requirements have advanced micro-fulfillment capabilities.
Goods-to-person solutions are ideal for increasing operational performance without increasing your building footprint. Inventory accuracy and reduced shrinkage make these the ideal solution for high-value inventory. The optimized flow of material and just-in-time replenishment eliminates unnecessary inventory, reducing your total cost. Today’s solutions also work well in chilled or freezer environments and are ideal for a variety of industry segments and applications, such as e-Commerce and omnichannel facilities and parts management.
The shift to a higher volume of e-Commerce orders is driving the need for responsive operations that are built to reduce labor while increasing accuracy and high throughput. Combining the proprietary algorithms of FORTNA WES™ with several key order picking and packing technologies make it possible for high volume operations to meet growing demand with greater efficiency.
FORTNA works with leading equipment manufacturers to design flexible, scalable and reliable operations that meet your business requirements.
FORTNA will help integrate with your existing systems and/or help you leverage newer automation technologies for an operation that is responsive to fluctuations in demand.
Labor cost, availability and safety are challenging for even the most efficient operations. Robotic solutions deliver the speed, accuracy and efficiency to fulfill a broad range of operational requirements for distribution centers. FORTNA experts will partner with your business to engineer flexible, scalable and modular solutions that meet your unique business needs.
FORTNA Robotics combines the cutting-edge technology and agility of a startup with the industry and application knowledge of an experienced integrator. This approach delivers cutting-edge robotics that fit established material handling processes and work seamlessly as part of large, integrated systems.
FORTNA’s commitment to research and development works to apply the latest advances in vision, sensing and gripping technologies to expand the capability of automation to handle increasingly complex tasks. From singulating items in preparation for sorter induction to unloading at the receiving dock and more, FORTNA provides innovative robotics ready to address challenges facing your business.
The optimal robotic technologies are incorporated into innovative designs for a robust solution that meets and exceeds performance expectations. FORTNA robotic solutions increase productivity and efficiency while lowering overall costs.
Popular applications include each picking and e-Commerce packing. Robotic picking arms, sophisticated end-of-arm effectors, advanced vision systems, sensors and automatic shut off all work together to handle a wide variety of SKUs and ensure safe collaboration with human workers.
Intelligent software is essential to optimizing operations for maximum efficiency, reliability and flexibility. FORTNA WES™ is the leading warehouse execution system in the market. With an equipment and supplier agnostic approach to software, FORTNA designs and implements innovative and high-performance solutions for clients to power their operations with fast and accurate order fulfillment.
In addition to our FORTNA WES™ offering, our unique design approach allows us to identify and select additional technologies that uniquely meet your business requirements. The result is a comprehensive, flexible solution that delivers the promised business results.
Our robust experience enables us to develop solutions for those unique industry challenges and cross-pollinate best-in-class strategies and solutions.
Parts suppliers must balance distribution costs and resources to manage high inventory levels and a rapid shift to e-Commerce order fulfillment with more expensive single-unit shipments. Some of the industry’s biggest challenges include:
Consumer Goods companies must rethink their supply chain strategies and operations to remain competitive and rapidly respond to changing customer demands. Some of the industry’s biggest challenges include:
Electronics distributors are experiencing a shift in customer demand for unprecedented order fulfillment responsiveness and speed. Some of the industry’s biggest challenges include:
The food and beverage industry continues to undergo fundamental shifts in operations. Enabling e-Commerce and the handling of pieces, cases, layers and pallets while adapting to spikes in demand are key challenges for food and beverage distributors. Additional challenges include:
The grocery industry has undergone a fundamental shift. Enabling omnichannel capabilities, including curbside pick-up and home delivery, and micro-fulfillment strategies are critical as grocers navigate challenges that include:
Industrial product companies are challenged to meet their customers’ demands for a wide variety of SKUs to be delivered when and where they are urgently needed. Some of the industry’s biggest challenges include:
Market regulations and customer demands are driving new business requirements for healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences distributors. Faced with the complexity of controlled inventory and multi-temperature storage, companies must also navigate increasing labor challenges that make it difficult to meet service and cost expectations predictably. FORTNA can help improve efficiency so leaders can meet performance goals with existing human and capital resources.
In a complex distribution landscape, healthcare, hospital, pharmaceutical, medical supply and medical device distributors must navigate challenges that include:
At FORTNA, our team of parcel experts boasts extensive industry experience and specialized expertise in managing projects of varying sizes and throughput requirements. Our tailored solutions cater to the needs of a diverse clientele ranging from regional service providers to large-scale global logistics corporations.
With FORTNA’s cutting-edge designs, parcel handling systems can move seamlessly and reliably through sorters, scales and scanners, meeting the demands of even the most challenging workflows. We provide ongoing Lifecycle Performance Services to ensure maximum system longevity and sustained high performance, even during critical peak periods.
We offer state-of-the-art technology and innovative strategies to customize automated systems with the necessary equipment, software and workflows to optimize site-specific requirements. Our parcel handling solutions have been meticulously designed to ensure optimal operational efficiency for a wide range of packaging materials including polybags, corrugated boxes and soft pack mailers.
Retail has experienced unprecedented disruption in the last few years. Omnichannel capabilities, including ship from store, micro-fulfillment and dark stores, are front and center as retailers and general merchandisers navigate challenges that include:
Third party logistics providers are facing seismic growth in e-Commerce order fulfillment from customers who demand access to higher inventory levels, additional services and same-day or next-day delivery. Some of the industry’s biggest challenges include: