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By Checkpoint Systems, Inc.

Every day, the worlds of Information Technology and Loss Prevention (LP) are intersecting in dramatic and unanticipated ways in the retail industry. For IT professionals, it's made life more challenging and demanding by introducing new technologies, new data sets, new standards—even entirely new vocabularies and "cultural" issues to contend with.

But to get the most out of LP systems, stores are looking to do more than just catch shoplifters or spot dishonest employees. Increasingly they're looking deeper into all forms of data—transactions, store traffi c, product arrivals and shipments—up and down their global supply chains, not just what's happening in the store itself. Doing so means tying into stores' accounting, marketing, HR and inventory management systems to unearth and analyze data that will reduce shrink that robs stores of profi ts and spikes prices for consumers.

Those challenges include integrating different data formats from different applications into a single, common data set, and knowing how to report that data in real time to key decision-makers. Additionally, since LP systems and IT systems increasingly share the same network infrastructure, IT managers must understand the impact on network management, bandwidth utilization and information security. Finally, there are issues that might be hard to envision until they actually occur, such as identity management as a critical requirement for good loss prevention practices.

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