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.

By leveraging scanning and sensor technology along with machine learning, Laundris officials see the use of RFID as optimizing 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.

Digital Supply Chain

Don Ward, founder and CEO of Laundris, said by integrating GT Linens into their digital supply chain platform, they can now offer their clients a holistic view of their textile operations, from procurement and distribution to usage and servicing.“This partnership is a game-changer,” said Ward in a statement. “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.”

Targeting Hoteliers

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, added Ward. This collaboration enhances operational efficiency, transparency and sustainability, helping to unify a historically fragmented supply chain.

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.

Laundris will serve as the single system of record, amplifying the power of shared data to enhance customer experiences through automation. This will deliver data that drives operational excellence through a connected and collaborative marketplace. Leveraging advanced data analytics and automation, the platform will support sustainability efforts by optimizing textile usage and minimizing unnecessary production.

“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.”