Does your Fulfillment Company offer adequate Physical Security?
Fulfillment customers must be able to trust their fulfillment company to safeguard their valuable inventory assets. This can be accomplished by following some simple and logical guidelines for physical warehouse security.
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Require surveillance cameras that provide constant monitoring of all warehouse areas. 
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Setup a secure caged area for the most valuable or information-sensitive customer inventory. Restrict access to this secured area to minimal project-specific employees only.
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Install a security alarm monitoring system that is activated during non-business hours with a designated call list to management employees if the alarm is sounded.
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Have adequate exterior lighting to allow visibility to the warehouse and surrounding parking lots by law enforcement.
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Provide sufficiently heated/cooled environment for employee comfort as well as to support any specific inventory storage needs.
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Manage customer inventory carefully with an ongoing process of material control and oversight by designated project employees.
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Train employees to check for suspicious individuals and behavior, and to report and suspected problems to management employees.
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Conduct periodic training sessions and mandatory drills for fire emergencies, evacuations, and security breach scenarios.
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Make sure all warehouse visitors sign in and are escorted within the facility.
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Know the vendors that service the facility, ensure that they check-in with the front desk upon arrival and departure.
If your fulfillment company can show evidence that these simple guidelines are being followed, you should feel confident about the physical safety of your inventory. For additional information about the security practices in place at Fulfillment America, please visit our site and fill out a form to receive further information.