TULSA. Okla. — Laundris Corp., a B2B enterprise software company specializing in inventory management and radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking, reports it has entered a strategic partnership with GT Linens (Garnier-Theibaut).
The company says the partnership marks the final piece in a fully integrated supply chain for textiles in laundry facilities, hotels, and healthcare, ensuring seamless optimization by embedding tags at production and commissioning and tracking individual items throughout their life through the supply chain.
“This partnership is a game-changer,” says Don Ward, founder and CEO of Laundris. “By integrating GT Linens into our digital supply chain platform, we can now offer our clients a holistic view of their textile operations, from procurement and distribution to usage and servicing.
“In most cases, textiles are the second-largest expense on the P&L (profit and loss statement), aside from labor. This ensures real-time inventory management, reduction in waste, and significant cost savings.”
By leveraging scanning and sensor technology along with machine learning, Laundris says it optimizes the management of all inventories in the supply chain by determining the optimum level of inventory needed to service customers, auto-replenishing the inventory to maintain those levels and removing unnecessary waste associated with prevalent reactionary ordering processes that exist today.
Laundris also serves as the single system of record, amplifying the power of shared data to enhance customer experiences through automation. The company adds that it delivers data that drives operational excellence through a connected and collaborative Marketplace.
The addition of GT Linens as the upstream supply-chain manufacturer solidifies the comprehensive ecosystem, connecting manufacturers, distributors, commercial laundries, and hotels and healthcare providers, Laundris shares. This collaboration enhances operational efficiency, transparency and sustainability, helping to unify a historically fragmented supply chain.
“We’re thrilled to join forces with Laundris to revolutionize how textiles are managed,” says Jean-Philippe Krukowicz, president and CEO of GT Linens. “Together, we’re bringing a new level of efficiency and traceability to the industry, ensuring that every textile is accounted for throughout its lifecycle.”
Hoteliers and linen providers will benefit from an automated and frictionless procurement process through the Laundris Marketplace. This will enable all parties to have clear communication and transparency through AI-driven predictive models of inventory levels and auto-replenishment orders, along with improved visibility into linen lifecycles.
Leveraging advanced data analytics and automation, the platform will also support sustainability efforts by optimizing textile usage and minimizing unnecessary production.
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