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Very Group partners with Genetec for new facility safeguarding
The Very Group has commenced operations in its recently built Skygate fulfilment centre, having migrated from three separate locations. The new facility can accommodate all one-man fulfilment and returns operations on the single site, and provides room for continued expansion.
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he move enables The Very Group to process more orders and use
new technology to make the business more responsive, reducing the time it takes to get products to customers. The site’s position in the East Midlands, adjacent to the M1 and East Midlands Airport, with its own rail freight terminal, will enable the business to increase its cut-off time for next day delivery to midnight from 7pm, and explore the introduction of same day delivery in the future.
A crucial aspect of the new hub was security – with the need to not only secure the site and the stock inside, but implement solutions which would benefit the wider business too.
The Very Group required a platform which could unite operations and provide the business-wide value it was seeking. The company approached Grantfen, initially on a consultancy basis, to guide the organisation on the route it should be taking and the technologies that could support its ambition. It put forward a comprehensive
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solution built on the Genetec Security Center unified platform.
Incorporating video surveillance and analytics, access control, business systems, this allowed The Very Group to deploy best of breed 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.
However, with the robust Genetec software development kit, and Grantfen’s specialist development expertise, 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. This has involved getting permission to hold employee data, but again, thanks to the
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