• Manages Uniform Departments

• Comprehensive Yet Easy to Use

• Saves Time & Money

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InvoTech’s – Garment Inventory Management System

GIMS™ manages all aspects of the uniform department:

• Employee assignments of uniforms, lockers and conveyor slots

• Daily pick-up of uniforms, including loaners

• All cleaning activity including automatic billing by department

• Purchasing new uniforms and automatically adding them to inventory

• Selling items to employees or charging them for lost garments

• Managing repairs and alterations, and tracking the repair history of garments and seamstresses and tailors

InvoTech’s GIMS™ is specifically designed to automate uniform room operations in hotels, casinos, theme parks, sports arenas and stadiums. For over 15 years, InvoTech has been the world leader in inventory tracking within the hospitality industry. GIMS™ is used by more than 300 high-profile properties in 10 countries around the world to control and manage employee uniforms.

The success of GIMS™ directly results from InvoTech’s mission and philosophy of being a service company that integrates quality systems tailored to the needs of our clients. Our quality service sets us apart and provides us with an unequaled understanding of uniform department operations. Since our inception, InvoTech has listened to our clients, and we have continuously enhanced GIMS™ to reflect their growing complexity and ever-changing needs.

The result is the most comprehensive, the most sophisticated, and the easiest-to-use approach for managing all aspects of the uniform department – GIMS™-SE, Version 7. The flow and operation of GIMS™ mirrors the various activities of the uniform department. In essence, GIMS™ has been designed by uniform department managers for uniform department managers to greatly improve their efficiency, their control, and the information they are able to obtain.

Key Benefits GIMS™ takes all the guesswork out of uniform department management.

• Assures correct uniforms are available for employees when they arrive at work

• Keeps track of which uniforms are assigned to employees and ensures all garments are returned when employees terminate

• Automatically assigns loaner garments and monitors their return at the end of the shift

• Manages all cleaning activities and tracks cleaning turnaround time

• Automatically audits outside cleaning bills and accurately charges laundry expenses to departments

• Monitors productivity of uniform department staff and helps managers adjust staffing based on activity levels

• Reduces new purchases by knowing exactly what uniforms are on-hand at all times

• Greatly improves productivity of the staff and dramatically reduces the amount of time spent processing uniforms, dealing with employees and gathering data

Attractive ROI The improved information and efficient processes derived from GIMS™ brings about substantial reductions in operating expenses and labor costs. Savings occur in four areas:

• Reduction in Purchases – knowing what to buy, when to buy, and how many to buy of each size eliminates wasteful spending and excess inventory.

• Improved Labor Productivity – record keeping and garment processing are automated, saving time and resources. Utilization of uniform department staff is optimized.

• Lower Cleaning Expenses – cleaning activity is monitored by GIMS™ and excessive cleaning by employees is eliminated. Billing errors from outside vendors (both quantities and costs) become a thing of the past.

• Elimination of Losses – GIMS™ provides full accountability at every level, from employees to vendors. GIMS™ ensures that all garments are returned from employees and the cleaners. The value of missing or unreturned items can be charged to the responsible party.

Payback in 1 Year

Multi-read RFID equipment greatly reduces or even eliminates labor when handling cleaning transactions. Employees can simply deposit their soiled garments in the special drop chute and GIMS™ will read all their items instantly. Loaners will automatically be unassigned and all items will be checked-in for cleaning. Alternatively, a table-top antenna can be used to read multiple garments at one time. For processing clean garments coming back from the laundry, InvoTech can install vertical antennas. As multiple garments pass by the antenna(s) they are read and “returned” from cleaning automatically. GIMS™ has an RFID counter that shows how many items were read in each batch and the total amount scanned. Each batch, therefore, can be easily checked for accuracy.

Vertical Antenna

RFID Drop Chute

Table-top Antenna

GIMS™ Features RFID Chips or Barcodes GIMS™ utilizes specialized, permanent barcode labels or RFID chips attached to each garment to track the movement and usage of garments and to establish accurate inventory values and specific location and accountability of all items. The RFID chips utilize 13.56 MHz frequency and allow for the simultaneous processing of multiple items. This capability greatly reduces and can even eliminate labor for many daily tasks while dramatically increasing the accuracy of the information. The RFID chip can be re-used when the garment to which it is attached wears out and is discarded. The pre-printed permanent barcodes will last the life of the garment. With proper application, the pre-printed permanent barcode will not fall off, and they will not fade to the point that they are unusable. These qualities ensure data accuracy, which is critical to obtaining maximum benefits from GIMS™.

Processing Cleaning InvoTech’s attention to details and the integration of labor-saving equipment has made

GIMS™ the most popular system on the market.

When using barcodes, GIMS™ has special counters displayed when scanning items in for cleaning or when receiving items back from the cleaner. This assures an accurate count of all garments scanned. Specialized barcode scanners minimize the amount of time required to process all the garments to and from cleaning.

Whether RFID chips or barcodes are used:

• Daily processing is accelerated • Human error is eliminated • The integration of specialized equipment with the unique

software design of GIMS™ make it all possible

Processing Employees GIMS™ makes it easy to process various transactions dealing with employees. In fact,

employees can be automatically added to and deleted from GIMS™ with the optional Human Resources Interface. GIMS™ displays exactly which garments employees should have for their particular job along with which garments already have been assigned. On one screen, users can assign or unassign a garment or can record which garments employees picked-up. On the same screen, users can issue a loaner or a one-for-one garment. Transactions are validated automatically by the employee with use of InvoTech’s Signature Capture Terminal. Disputes are eliminated, and all records are kept within GIMS™ without the use of paper reports or index cards.

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Purchasing GIMS™ prevents unnecessary purchases. Guesswork is eliminated and labor-hours

associated with purchasing decisions are dramatically reduced. Information regarding each garment’s usage and age, including its number of cleanings and the number of persons wearing each garment, is automatically maintained by GIMS™. The sizes worn by each employee is also recorded. GIMS™ ensures inventory numbers are accurate and immediately reconciles to its automated physical inventory count.

• Generate requisitions & purchase orders quickly and accurately from pre-defined lists

• Maintain department budgets and debit appropriate departments for purchases

• Garment count and value automatically added to inventory when items are received

• Manage purchases for specific employees

• GIMS™ can interface with most property-wide purchasing systems

Productivity

• Monitor all transactions by type over time

• Establish productivity standards based on transaction levels and FTE’s

• Track activities by user to assure correct policies and procedures are followed

• Paperless processing – all information can be emailed or exported

• Monthly Summary report helps managers monitor and report on trends in department activities and inventory levels over time.

Special Features of GIMS™ GIMS™ has a number of special features that saves labor-hours and ensures data integrity. These tools make GIMS™ unique compared with other systems and allow users to perform otherwise difficult and time consuming tasks routinely and quickly. Some of these features include:

• Deleting, unassigning and merging multiple garments at once

• Taking physical inventories by area

• Redefining and relocating garments instantly

• Multiple manufacturers for same garment

• Separate prices for each manufacturer and size of garment

• Managers control each user’s access rights to all functions and activities in GIMS™

• Tracking non-tagged items to employees and to and from cleaning

• Maintain both a barcode number and/or an RFID number for each garment – useful for those transitioning from barcodes to RFID

• GIMS™ is available in a multi-property configuration maintaining inventory control for each individual property and combined inventory information for efficient purchasing and transferring of garments between properties

Software Interfaces Several optional interfaces are available with GIMS™. The interfaces directly link GIMS™ to other internal systems such as Human Resources, Purchasing, Payroll and Accounting. This capability greatly improves productivity throughout the organization and assures accuracy of all uniform related transactions.

In addition, GIMS™ links to and automates conventional conveyors and the most popular automatic uniform distribution systems. Such systems eliminate labor associated issuing uniforms to employees. The Laundry Interface connects GIMS™ to laundries (inside or outside) and automates cleaning activity and billing. Laundries can automatically sort and match garments for employees. The uniform department can eliminate scanning items back from the cleaners.

Management Information All actions within the uniform department – whether they be assigning garments, lockers,

or conveyor slots to employees, adding or deleting inventory, processing cleaning, altering or repairing garments, etc. – are recorded by GIMS™ and are verified on the screen. That information and more is readily accessible in the Reports section of GIMS™.

More than 125 different reports detailing all aspects of uniform department operations are provided. The Information Wizard also allows users to create their own reports. Reports are grouped for easy access to the information needed. Specific reports within a selected area are shown on the right side of the screen. Most reports have special filters to easily get at the information required. Work smarter, save time, improve decisions – that’s what GIMS™ Reports are all about.

What InvoTech Provides InvoTech is a service company that integrates its proprietary software with the right mix of technology, equipment and supplies to fit the needs of each of our clients. We gather information about the operations, including as needed on-site fact-finding visits. We then can propose the most cost-effective solution including:

• Database customization

• Specialized equipment and supplies (RFID or barcode)

• On-site installation of software and equipment (including tuning and configuration)

• On-site training of staff and managers Minimum System Requirements

Microsoft Windows XP or Vista 3 GHz processor

1 GB RAM 5 GB HD free space

Microsoft SQL Server

• On-site assistance with grand openings

• Coordination of GIMS™ with existing internal procedures of other departments

• 24/7/365 technical support and software maintenance

• Free, periodic software enhancements

Visit our website at www.InvoTech.com, email sales@invotech.com, or call (800) 820-2111.