Dependable Laundry Soltutions presents a Slideshow on Hotel Laundry: How to Schedule Operations

1. Hotel Laundry: How
to Schedule
Operations

2. Hotel Laundry: How to Schedule
Operations
Keeping laundry clean. Making sure there are
enough towels. Balancing housekeeping staff
on-hand with the workload required. And ultimately,
keeping customers happy.
These tasks might sound simple, but only those in
the hotel or hospitality industry will understand how
difficult they can be. And especially how difficult
they can be to complete efficiently.
In the end, all of these tasks depend on a laundry and
housekeeping system that is well-organised,
well-documented, and flexible so that it can handle
high and low occupancy periods. If you’d like your
laundry to operate like that - we hope these tips will
help.

3. How Much Laundry Needs to be
Washed?
You might be surprised how many properties don’t know the answer to this question.
Thankfully, there is a relatively simply method of estimating this demand based on your
occupancy. It’s called Kilos Per Occupied Room (KPOR).
To calculate KPOR, you must first get an idea how much laundry you must wash and dry per
occupied room. You can either track individual rooms, or track the weight of your total
laundered material in a day, and divide it by the amount of rooms that were occupied on that day.
KPOR = Total Laundry Washed ÷ Total Occupied Rooms
Once you know how much laundry you must wash per room (KPOR), forecasting demand is easy.
Just multiply your KPOR by the amount of rooms booked, and you’ll know about how much
laundry you’ll need to wash that day.
LAUNDRY FORECAST = KPOR x Total Booked Rooms

4. How Much Laundry can Your
Facility Handle?
The necessary next step is to figure out how much laundry you can wash, and how long it
takes to do so. Don’t worry, there are formulas for this too.
One way to figure it out is to divide the amount of laundry that needs to be done by the
total rated capacity of all your washers.
For example, if you have 3 washers rated at 50kg capacity, your total capacity is 150kg. If
your machines take an hour per load, you can wash 150kg per hour. So if you’ve got to wash
1350kg of laundry in a day, it’ll take you 9 hours to do it.
TIME REQUIRED = Laundry Forecast (in kg) ÷ Capacity

5. Time to Start Controlling Your
Laundry
With those two simple equations as a foundation, you can begin to predict demand
and control your laundry operation.
It’ll take 9 hours to wash your laundry. Find out how much time it will take to fold and
dry that laundry, and you’ll have an idea of how many hours of labour you’ll need.
Now you can schedule the right amount of staff for the right amount of hours - based
just on how many rooms are booked.
The bottom line here is that you can start to perform laundry operations based on a
plan - rather than letting your laundry needs determine your plan.

6. We’re Here to Help
If you need help planning or designing your laundry, we’ve got 40 years of experience
supplying and serving Australian laundry machines, and we can help.
Whether you’re looking for some well-informed advice, or seeking to buy an
industrial washing machine, give us a shout any time and we’re happy to help.