Articles
Next-Gen Loss Prevention
August 21, 2009
We believe that loss prevention is a retail discipline that transcends departmental, technological, and channel-specific silos. Read Hayes, Ph.D. believes that, too.
Hayes is the director of the Loss Prevention Research Council, and his important research graces the pages of this month's special supplement from Integrated Solutions For Retailers.
This report addresses many facets of loss prevention, but focuses on the primary concerns retail loss prevention execs face in this age: high-tech crime, employee theft, and organized retail crime. Much of the report is packed with actionable information and advice from Hayes, the preeminent authority on how to apply an academic, systematic, interdisciplinary approach to loss prevention.
The sponsors of the report support our contention that loss prevention is everyone's business. They bring many perspectives to the project, from cash control to exception reporting to alarm monitoring. They are:
- NuTech National, a company that offers a nationwide alarm servicing network and web-based alarm monitoring management tools
- Corporate Safe Specialists, which offers a cash control system designed to safeguard cash from receipt of the bill to bank deposit
- Direct Source, a developer, integrator, and installer of store systems with expertise in security infrastructures
- Epicor, which offers integrated exception reporting software that ties POS and store operations into the LP network
- MEI, which equips smart safes with bill validation technology that makes cash handling faster and more secure
- And Protection One, which offers solutions for intrusion detection, access control, remote monitoring, fire and hazard detection, and video surveillance, and EAS.
The challenges that these sponsors help you overcome are all thoroughly addressed in the report. Thanks to our sponsors for making this research readily available to our audience. As Hayes puts it in his report, "Future LP leaders must prepare themselves personally by becoming experts in leadership and planning, integrated retail processes, behavioral psychology, and evidence-based crime and loss control methodology." We're proud to present his vision, because we couldn't have said it better.
Download the report here.
Download the report here.
