The true cost of not investing in a laundry management system

For many commercial laundries operating throughout Australia, the probability of picking up a larger customer base over time upon setting up their business isn’t out of reach. However, a large customer base does not automatically guarantee that the profits the commercial laundry makes will be in abundance—especially if the commercial laundry still depends on manual processes.

Without the right technology, managing an expanding volume of linen orders can be taxing for both linen managers and the employees handling them. As they dedicate more time to ensure a faultless linen handling process, such a workforce will be compromising their productivity levels, which may result in them experiencing burnout.

This could lead to a greater chance of human-related errors, processing mistakes, or other issues which can be detrimental to the commercial laundry’s profit-making abilities. Some costly errors caused by manual linen handling include incorrectly counting linen items, misplacing linen items, losing linen due to theft, and not utilising linen items to their best potential to preserve the lifespan of linen materials.

In fact, linen loss, while not necessarily linked to theft, could also be attributed to poor utilisation, which halves or shortens its lifespan. In the US, 90% of hospitals do not reach their useful life, and this costs the healthcare industry a whopping $840 million annually. To prevent this from happening, commercial laundry owners should consider investing in a laundry management system.

With its multifaceted features, this software can help laundries streamline operations, reduce their operational costs, and boost overall ROI.

Bundle Connect is an advanced laundry management system that can help businesses avoid costly processing errors and streamline their laundry operations.

With its cloud capabilities, it is able to read information transmitted from an RFID chip embedded in a linen cloth. Information can then be relayed from the software about a linen item’s location in real time, reducing the likelihood of incidents of lost items due to theft or misplacement.

Bundle Connect significantly reduces a business’s expenditure needed to replace lost items. Its user-friendly features make it easy for customers to place their orders through the software.

This software is able to automate the billing, invoicing, and delivery requirements of linen orders to ensure a smooth and precise order-to-invoice process and can alert linen managers when stock levels have reached below the established par level.

This helps linen managers place an order for more linen inventory to avoid overstocking or understocking.

Linen managers can also gain insights into how many times a linen item has been laundered or when it is reaching the end of its shelf life, which helps in decision-making when it comes to the quality of linen used for everyday operations.