Announcing…

The winners of the Australian Fraud Awards 2023 – sponsored by Sensormatic…

This Award recognises the most exciting new business or solution to enter the retail risk and loss prevention arena, supplying any part of the risk and loss prevention industry. To qualify the solution or business must have launched within the last two years.

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This Award recognises and celebrates great stories of innovation and breadth of impact within risk management. This category is open to both retailers and suppliers who can demonstrate how their initiative, product or solution is helping to build a more sustainable and better future.

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This Award recognises a collaborative effort between a retailer and the police that leverages their respective resources to produce an outstanding result, whether that be in the apprehension of criminals or prevention of crime.

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Here the judges are looking for innovative approaches to either emerging or well-established challenges. The solution may have been developed by a vendor, retailer or security/guarding team or be the result of collaborative effort. The solution must address an in-store retail problem, including new challenges and those that overlap with an online customer order, such as fulfilment from store or kerbside pick-up, but excluding supply chain (which is part of the online category).

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Here the judges are looking for innovative approaches to either emerging or well-established challenges. The solution may have been developed by a vendor, or retailer or be the result of a collaborative effort. The solution must address an online retail problem, including challenges experienced within distribution centres and the supply chain.

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The judges will be looking for a vendor who consistently goes over and above the role of ‘just’ being a supplier. The Vendor Of The Year Award will acknowledge those vendors who form tangible and lasting partnerships with their retail clients. Please note that the winner from the previous year will be ineligible to enter the following year. However, they will be invited to the Fraud Awards evening to present the award.

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From commercial data sharing partnerships to a few neighbourhood retailers working together to combat crime, what the judges are looking for here is real, tangible business benefits resulting from genuine collaboration between retailers and vendors or vendors and the police, along with a clear ROI.

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The judges are looking to recognise the success of an outstanding individual who has made a positive contribution to the bottom line performance and overall loss prevention landscape within their place of work. The winner does not necessarily work full-time in profit protection. They might be from another discipline, but “really get” risk and as such has made a significant difference – either financially or culturally – within their place of work.

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Often the unsung heroes of the Risk Team, this Award recognises outstanding Regional or Divisional Heads who provide their stores with genuine support and guidance in the fight against retail risk and fraud, and who also embrace the bigger, company-wide aims and objectives. In so doing they bring genuine value and benefits to their company as well as the wider industry network.

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Recognises the Profit Protection Team that undertook that difficult online technology roll-out that was delivered in record time. This Award is for excellence in the symbiotic fields of online risk management and robust supply chain processes. It recognises the team that undertook that difficult technology roll out, or inspired the whole organisation with its approach to new challenges. It is a real pat on the back for not only spotting trends and suspicious anomalies within the fulfilment chain, but also successfully risk sizing and closing the process gaps that are causing shrink within the business.

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Each year the judges induct one person into the Retail Risk ‘Hall of Fame’. This person will be someone whom the judges feel has made an outstanding contribution to the Profit Protection, Risk Management or Loss Prevention profession.

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The judges are looking for outstanding contribution from one individual. That could be in the face of difficult trading conditions, or the implementation of challenging new strategies and technologies. The winner of this prestigious award will be recognised by his or her peers as being at the pinnacle of modern retail risk and loss prevention and a leader in their field.

The winners