Logistics
Cargo and product theft. Property damage. Employee tampering. Organized crime. The supply chain sustains losses valued in the billions of dollars each year - incidents that are often perpetrated by employees or involve internal collusion.
Securitas USA delivers customized security solutions designed to expose security breaches, reduce theft and shipping loss, minimize employee collaboration and sustain profitability. In short, we offer the most reliable, comprehensive and professional logistics support available. Securitas USA can work with your loss prevention management to conduct security audits that identify threats to your facility and its supply chain, both internal and external.
While the West Coast was once lined with canneries, the last operational tuna packing plant in the continental United States is located in east Los Angeles County, several miles from the sea, in Santa Fe Springs. In this age of global trade, tuna loins are pre-cooked and frozen at facilities overseas and then delivered via temperature-controlled shipping containers for thawing and packing. Owned and operated by Bumble Bee Foods, the plant includes two warehouses as well as a 190,000 square foot manufacturing facility and employs 250 workers in two shifts.
As one of the nation’s leading grocers, Safeway depends on the efficiency and security of its distribution centers. The Seattle division, which covers stores in five northwest states, consists of three distribution centers in the state of Washington: Spokane, Bellevue, and a new state-of-the-art facility in Auburn. Featured on the television show Modern Marvels, the Auburn distribution center is on a 116-acre facility previously used by the Boeing Corporation to build airplanes.
The A.P. Moller-Maersk Group is a powerhouse in a number of industries with a truly international presence. Maersk Line, for example, is one of the globe’s dominant shipping companies with a fleet of over 500 container vessels plying vast oceans and busy waterways, but the firm also has sizable operations in energy, supply chain, and retail. Based and originated in Denmark, the firm employs over 115,000 people in 130 countries.
In this global economy, electronics products used in offices and homes every day are almost never sourced in a single country. Components originating in dozens of manufacturing plants around the world typically are brought together for assembly into a final product.
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