Die Cuts With A View

With more and more people scrap booking, the need for material has grown. Die Cuts creates and provides a wide range of card stock and scrap booking products. A general perception with paper is that one piece won’t be missed. CamSentry provided an excellent solution to a growing problem in the Die Cuts warehouse. Die Cuts was experiencing an increasingly difficult employee productivity and theft problem, and considered several ways to deal with it. They looked into buying a complete video surveillance system, but could not justify the high cost of owning and maintaining video recording equipment. With CamSentry's solution, the only upfront cost was the cameras. There was no need to hassle with on-site recording equipment since the video is stored securely on the internet and accessible via a secure account on CamSentry's website. As for the employee theft problem, it decreased significantly soon after the cameras were installed.

"We're very pleased with the complete solution and the customer service that CamSentry offers. We would definitely recommend this solution to other businesses looking for affordable video surveillance."
    - Jake Hill, Die Cuts

EGI

EGI is a small business that imports various stitched goods, furniture, appliances, cabinetry, arts and crafts equipment, and imitation motorized vehicles. Their warehouses alternate between bustling and dozing, where frequent visitors and potential clients pass through amidst all the activity. With the combination unsupervised people, and highly accessible product, shrinkage was inevitable. Additionally, due to the high volume of transient items and need for space, the outer yard frequently caught a noticeable number of much needed pallets. Under cover of darkness, these pallets, too, started disappearing.

Having no efficient solution for either problem, the need for surveillance, inside and out, mounted. Hiring someone solely to watch inventory was cost prohibitive, and with business booming and warehouses working at maximum efficiency, it wasn't feasible to move the whole operation in search of greater warehouse space, in exchange for a less comely location, just to avoid the loss of a small number of pallets per week. Temporary compromise: live with the loss.

EGI needed both indoor and outdoor surveillance, that wasn't expensive, that “saw” and remembered everything that happened when people were present, that sent alerts when anomalous activity occurred, and that had a way to quickly access and review all this information, at any time, from anywhere. Enter Camsentry™ Sitewatcher™.

With Camsentry Sitewatcher, EGI was able to solve its surveillance needs in an inexpensive, highly efficient way. Indoors, recorded incidents emerged, problems were addressed. Outdoors, within three days of installation, the A.M. pallet perpetrator was discovered and, shortly thereafter, his patterns understood. Police were notified, surveillance and habits were shared. Upon occurrence of the next incident, Sitewatcher alerted the appropriate individual, recorded and simultaneously sent the live feed, police were called, the crook was busted, and EGI took care of business. The savings generated from the lack of product replacement will quickly pay for the surveillance system installed, and give peace of mind for years to come. Sitewatcher, looking out for you.

Summary: Import business suffers shrinkage from within, pallet loss without. Installation of Camsentry Sitewatcher solves both problems inexpensively and effectively.