The Very Group secures fulfillment centre
THE RETAILER has employed Genetec to safeguard its new purpose-built facility.
The highly-automated fulfilment centre – close to one million square feet – is designed to centralise operations and drive efficiency. The Very Group has historically operated from three fulfilment centres in the north of England. The new site in the East Midlands is adjacent to the M1 and East Midlands Airport, with its own rail freight terminal.
A crucial aspect of the new hub was security. Consultant Grantfen put forward a comprehensive solution built on the Genetec Security Center unified platform.
Incorporating video surveillance and analytics, access control, automatic number plate recognition and integration with other key business systems, this allowed The Very Group to deploy technologies from a range of vendors including HID Global, Axis Communications and SenStar.
Perhaps the most important solution needed was tracking who was coming in and out of the building – with such a large workforce, combined with inbound and outbound deliveries, the facility has hundreds of people inside at any one time. Previously, security manually searched people selected at random.
The Very Group has been able to adapt the solution and write its own code in order to use the access control system to implement truly random searches.
Timestamps show when vehicles entered or exited the grounds, helping with yard management and traffic flow.
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