Tag: supply chain security program
Shopping Mall Security and LP
Shopping mall security is not a replacement for retail loss prevention programs. Mall security and LP have supporting missions, but they’re different missions.
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Start with a Good Cause: Loss Prevention Strategy Examples
In today's retail business environment, everyone is seeking a competitive advantage. It could be in technology, people, business practices, or newly developed programs. The...
Closing a Retail Store: Loss Prevention’s Role
In recent years, senior loss prevention executives throughout retail have had to come to grips with a different type of promotional sale events—the all-too-frequent store-closing sale.
It...
Retailers Respond with Major Rescue Efforts in the Wake of the Hurricane Disaster
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been a disastrous one. Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas as a Category 4 storm on August 24. One...
15 Best Practices for Inventory Loss Prevention
In April 2014, the ECR Europe Shrink and On-shelf Availability Group received a special award from ECR Europe to celebrate 15 years of the...
Access Control and the Case of the Missing Camera
When I first approached this writing assignment on access controls, I brainstormed the usual items on the topic. I realized quickly that a 3,000-word...
9 Necessary Practices for Successful Shrinkage Control
In the generally unyielding area of retail loss prevention, few US corporations have been highly successful in staunching the pervasive problem of inventory shrinkage—the...
An Update on Major Subjects Affecting Retail LP
After completing the three-part series on the first fifteen years of Loss Prevention magazine, I promised to write an additional article that looks at...
Think Integration for Your Supply-Chain Security Program
Today's supply-chain security program networks are a far cry from the basic lock-and-key operations of the past. Readily available technological tools and business intelligence...