Improving tracking of textile product inventory usually means attaching automated identification to an item and reading this ID during the laundering process to determine it has been received, processed or sorted clean for delivery to the proper customer.

On the other hand:

• Not all items need to be individually counted, particularly the least expensive ones. Building an order of X number of shop towels for a customer requires providing at least that many, not exactly that many. It can cost a laundry less to provide more. You weigh X new shop towels, amass a pile of used shop ...