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Warehouses and distribution

Warehousing & Logistics IT

A missed pickup window is not a printer ticket. Secure Techies keeps Southern California warehouses online — WMS environment, dock scanners, and cameras on the yard when the lot is the risk.

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Southern California warehouse aisle with empty racking and skylight
  • Docks + HQOne team
  • CCTVYards and lots
  • 24/7Help desk

Why this industry is different

The dock does not wait on a ticket

Scanners, WMS, and the office have to stay up through a pickup window. A dark yard after close is a different problem — and most MSPs only staff the first one.

  1. 01

    WMS is the business

    If inventory or shipping stalls, trucks wait. Help desk and backups have to treat that as critical.

  2. 02

    Shared scanners and leftover logins

    Seasonal labor and temp agencies change every month. Unmanaged devices are how WMS and email get compromised.

  3. 03

    The yard after close

    Cargo theft and lot walk-offs are an operations problem. Cameras do not replace insurance. They change what happens at 2 a.m.

Warehouse shipping desk beside a roll-up dock door

What is in the plan

Everything we do for warehouses

Office, docks, and yard — grouped the way a GM actually runs a building.

Office and WMS

  • Help desk for shipping and accounting
    A stalled WMS or a printer that will not print bills of lading is treated as urgent.
  • WMS environment
    Identity, devices, and network around the system. Application support stays with the WMS vendor.
  • Microsoft 365 and backups
    Mail, files, and a restore test — not only the old file server.

Docks and devices

  • Scanner and tablet standards
    Unique logins, MFA where it applies, and a wipe when seasonal labor rolls off.
  • Dock connectivity
    Wi-Fi and wired paths that do not die when the building is full.
  • Multi-site standards
    Three buildings should not mean three leftover consumer routers.

Yard and after hours

  • Mobile CCTV on the lot
    Solar, rapidly deployable cameras for yards and overflow parking.
  • Email and identity
    Most warehouse incidents still start in a mailbox. We treat email as a security system.
  • On-site SoCal
    Hardware and trailer drops from Canoga Park across Los Angeles, the Valley, and the Inland Empire.
Warehouse pallet racking with a yellow safety rail

If the scanner will not talk to WMS, the truck is not loading. It is waiting.

How the work is packaged

IT and yard security for warehouses

Managed IT for the office and docks, plus cameras when the lot is the risk.

All services

Managed infrastructure

Office servers, cloud, and the PCs and scanners that live on the dock.

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Managed help desk

Support for shipping, inventory, and accounting — not a Monday callback after a missed window.

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Network security

Dock Wi-Fi, office LAN, and remote access that still works when a trailer is on the yard.

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Mobile CCTV trailers

Yards, overflow lots, and temporary facilities without a six-month cabling project.

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Systems we keep the environment ready for

We do not replace your WMS vendor. We keep identity, devices, and networks healthy so those tools stay up.

  • WMS (environment)
  • Microsoft 365
  • Dock scanners / MDM
  • Segmented office and dock networks
  • Tested backups
  • Yard CCTV
Warehouse network rack near a dock hallway

IT support for warehouses and logistics operators

Secure Techies provides warehousing and logistics IT for Southern California operators who cannot miss a pickup window. From Canoga Park we run managed help desk, infrastructure, and mobile CCTV trailers as one plan — office, docks, and yard.

A warehouse is two businesses sharing a building. Headquarters has accounting and a WMS login. The dock has scanners, a weak access point, and a yard that goes dark after the last truck. Most MSPs only staff the first business.

Who we work with

Independent warehouses, 3PLs, and distribution operators with a Southern California building — often one to a few sites. Plants that need an IT/OT boundary start at manufacturing. Contractors with trailers start at construction.

What is included

A standard engagement covers:

  • Help desk for shipping, inventory, and accounting
  • WMS environment — identity, devices, network. Application support stays with the vendor
  • Microsoft 365 and backups that have been restored
  • Scanner and tablet standards, including a wipe when seasonal labor leaves
  • Network security for the office and the dock
  • Cybersecurity that assumes the mailbox is still how ransomware arrives
  • Mobile CCTV on yards and overflow lots
  • On-site from Canoga Park across Los Angeles, the Valley, and the Inland Empire

Projects — a new building, a WMS cutover, a camera package — are quoted separately so the monthly plan stays predictable.

Yards and cargo theft

Cameras do not replace insurance. They change what happens after close: a live view, a recording, a deterrent on a lot that used to go dark. We already run this layer for construction. A warehouse yard is that problem with a fence and a pickup schedule.

Coverage and cost

Headquarters is in Canoga Park. On-site across Southern California. Remote for multi-state operators.

Pricing depends on office headcount, buildings, and whether cameras are in scope. We quote after a walkthrough.

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How an engagement starts

How we start with a warehouse

We walk the dock and the closet. Change windows follow pickup schedules, not ours.

  1. 01

    Map office, docks, and yard

    Who has a scanner, where WMS lives, what happens after close.

  2. 02

    Standardize access

    Unique logins, MFA, leftover seasonal accounts gone.

  3. 03

    Watch the yard if that is the risk

    Trailers for cameras when the lot is the problem, not just the inbox.

  4. 04

    Stay through the window

    Help desk that treats a missed pickup as severity.

Warehouse yard and fence at dusk in Southern California

Why this team

Why warehouse operators use us

We already run office IT and mobile cameras for construction. A warehouse is that problem with a pickup window.

  • Office and yard in one contract

    You should not need one vendor for Outlook and another to watch the fence overnight.

  • Southern California buildings

    LA, the Valley, and Inland Empire sites. Local dispatch when hardware or a trailer needs a human.

  • Honest about WMS

    We do not pretend to replace your WMS administrator. We keep the environment that system needs.

  • Change windows that respect the dock

    Patches follow pickup schedules unless the outage already is the disruption.

Warehouse IT questions

Do you support our WMS?
We support identity, devices, networks, and backups around it, and we coordinate with the WMS vendor when the issue is inside the application. We do not replace that vendor.
Can you put cameras on a yard or overflow lot?
Yes. Mobile CCTV trailers deploy without permanent power or a long cabling project in most cases.
How do you handle seasonal labor and shared scanners?
Unique logins where the hardware allows, MFA on mail, and a process to wipe or revoke access when a temp rolls off.
Do you work around pickup windows?
Yes. Disruptive work sits outside the window unless the outage already is the disruption.
How is this different from manufacturing IT?
Plants have an IT/OT boundary and production lines. Warehouses have docks, WMS, scanners, and yards. If you run both, we will say which plan fits which building. See manufacturing.
Where do you cover warehouses?
Southern California on-site from Canoga Park, including Los Angeles, the Valley, and Inland Empire sites. Remote for multi-state operators.
How much does warehouse IT support cost?
It depends on office headcount, buildings, and whether cameras are in scope. We quote after a walkthrough. Planning ranges are on the FAQ.
Can you take over from our current MSP?
Yes. We map access, WMS environment, backups, and vendors first, then cut over in a window you approve.

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