Fortna Inc.

For over 70 years, Fortna has partnered with the world’s top brands to transform their distribution operations into a competitive advantage. Fortna helps clients make and keep bold promises to their customers – fast, accurate and cost-effective fulfillment consistently at every touchpoint, across every channel. Fortna’s expertise spans distribution strategy, distribution center operations, material handling automation, supply chain systems and warehouse execution software systems. We built our firm on a promise – we develop a solid business case for change and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Media Library

	7 Steps to Getting Board Approval on your Distribution Project To remain competitive often requires investments in distribution operations. This article outlines the 7 steps to getting board approval on your next project.	Download
	7 Truths about the Business Case for Collaborative Picking Robots Bots are finding exciting new applications in the DC, but not all applications of bots can be justified. The business case for collaborative picking bots requires a balance of labor and technology.	Download
	Distribution at a Pivot Point: Addressing the Labor Problem The precipitous rise of eCommerce and shortage of traditional labor is re-shaping distribution operations. Companies will need to reimagine their operations—and labor—in a drastic way.	Download
	Distribution at a Pivot Point: Building the Business Case for Automation To achieve the fulfillment speed needed to compete with next-day shipping promises, companies must look to automation, which can help improve service capability and drive competitive advantage.	Download
	Distribution at a Pivot Point: Choosing the Right Automation Technology for Your Business Automation is not new, but there are a number of new/emerging technologies which make the business case more attractive. It’s important to evaluate technologies through the lens of the business case.	Download
	How Different WES Solutions Stack Up as part of the Enterprise Software Stack This article explains the key differences between suppliers claiming to have WES capabilities and the role WES plays in the enterprise stack.	Download
	Labor Challenges, Trends and Practical Solutions Distribution labor challenges continue with no signs of abating. Here are four strategies that companies are implementing to overcome today’s labor problems.	Download
	Unlocking the Value of Digital Fulfillment: Real-Time Systems Orchestrate and Optimize Complexity Systems that manage traditional manual operations simply cannot meet the needs of the automated distribution center. WES will be required to gain the full benefits of automation in the DC.	Download
	Unlocking the Value of Digital Fulfillment: The Evolving Warehouse Tech Stack The WES acts as an “efficiency engine” balancing out the peaks and valleys of the integrated process to keep the flow of the entire distribution center steady while increasing speed and output.	Download
	Unlocking the Value of Digital Fulfillment: WES as a Platform for Flexibility A WES is designed to be flexible and adapt to changing environments easily and affordably, without the risk of compromising the other vital roles that the WMS needs to play.	Download

Seminars

Title	Date	Starts	Ends	Location
Panel Discussion: Autonomous Mobile Robots - Lessons Learned from Implementation	3/09/2020	11:15 AM	12:00 PM	Theater H

Press Releases

Title	Date
Fortna Client and Associate Named as 2020 DC Velocity Rainmakers	8/11/2020
Keith Bauer Joins Fortna as Chief Human Resources Officer	7/17/2020
Fortna and its Associates Contribute to Global COVID-19 Relief Support	7/01/2020
Fortna Offers New Strategic Service for Companies to Assess eCommerce Fulfillment Technologies	6/15/2020
FORTNA INC. APPOINTS ROBERT MCKEEL AS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER	3/17/2020
Dr. Russell D. Meller, Fortna, Vice President Solution Design and Research and Development, Elected to National Academy of Engineering	2/12/2020
Fortna Announces Acquisition of Pierau Planung	2/07/2020
Cheryl Falk Joins Fortna as Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Communications and Business Development	2/07/2020
Fortna® Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of its Award-Winning Overall Well-Being Program	2/07/2020
Matthew S. Harrison Joins Fortna as Chief Financial Officer	1/27/2020
Fortna Announces the Next Major Release of its Warehouse Execution Software Platform: FortnaWES™ 2020 R1	1/20/2020

Fortna Inc.
333 Buttonwood Street
West Reading, PA 19611

Phone: 610-370-8000
Fax: 610-376-2861

Cheryl Falk
SVP Global Marketing Communications & Business Development

Patti Satterfield
VP Global Marketing & Business Development

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Controls and Controlling Devices
Simulation and Digital Twin Software & Services
Supply Chain Execution Systems and Software
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Fortna Inc.

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