As globalization is dominating many areas of today’s economy, the prevention of losses in the supply chain is a cornerstone to the efficiency of today’s business. Although highly sophisticated logistic concepts have been established in order to increase cost effectiveness and short-term availability of the goods, the threat of losses is omnipresent.
Typical loss generators like shoplifting, internal theft and fraud are amounting to billions of dollars of losses. As a rule, physical inventory measures are taken annually which hamper a successful examination. The “SENTINEL” program, however, enables a constant monitoring of the supply chain process in order to identify those loss generators and allow immediate actions.