Logistics security

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Logistics security deals with a comprehensive safeguarding of the value of goods, starting with the supply chain and the handover of the articles in the care of the supervising company (possibly with monitoring of the transport routes), the real operation of the supervising company (possibly fulfillment , mail order companies, warehouse workers, forwarding agents etc. .) for storage, order picking, dispatch, processing of returns and a reduction of the endangering influences (such as property offenses ), up to the elaboration of individual and client-specific security concepts, which e.g. B. may include internal investigations, but also the protection of the company's own IT.

The personnel deployment of mostly external security service providers is supplemented by various technical components (general video technology, thermal imaging cameras , hand probes and metal detectors, motion sensors, emergency and service control centers , right up to forensic software).

Automated monitoring of logistics processes is made possible by RFID technology. In RFID technology, goods and goods are equipped with an RFID chip that can be read out by RFID readers as often as required during the logistics process. In the textile industry , for example, high-quality items of clothing are equipped with an RFID chip, which is read out at defined checkpoints in the course of the transport chain from manufacture to specialist retailers and is then used in the store to monitor the situation and protect against theft .