NEWS
VR

How to reduce cost and increase efficiency by managing hotel consumables!

August 21, 2024

HOW TO REDUCE COST AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY BY MANAGING HOTEL CONSUMABLES!


The consumables of the hotel include dental utensils, combs, shavers, soap, shower caps, shampoo, shower liquid, shoe shine cloth, 

sewing kit, coasters, LIDS, disinfectant seals, garbage bags, matches, label pens, slippers, paper removers, etc.


  1. 1.The consumables of the hotel are often used by customers. Although the unit price of the hotel's consumables is low, if they are wasted

  2. for many years, the hotel will bear a huge operating expenses.


2. In the highly competitive market environment of hotel management, it is necessary to do a good job in the management of 

consumables if the operation efficiency of the hotel is improved, the operating expenses are reduced and the market competitiveness 

is improved.


FIRST : THE PROBLEMS IN THE USE OF HOTEL CONSUMBLES


1. WASTE OF HOTEL CONSUMABLES


1. At present, most hotels must equip at least "six small items" in each room, which refers to toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, slippers, a full 

set of toiletries, and razor. The use of six small products often exists waste phenomenon, according to statistics, the current hotel toothpaste 

utilization rate is only 20%.


2. Small soap is provided in the room's bathroom for guests to wash their hands or clean small clothes. In rare cases, guests use it all, and 

some may only use it to wash their hands. The value of recycling small used soap is greatly reduced.


3. Many hotels are equipped with female guest bags, but its utilization rate is not only low, but also meaningless, which can be said to be a 

great waste of the hotel.


4. Although the concept of environmental protection is valued by people, some hotels propose that customers should bring their own six 

small products, the hotel should not be equipped with such consumables, but it must be seen that it is difficult to let customers go out at any 

time with a large number of toiletries.


5. From a survey specifically for tourists, it can be learned that 63.12% of tourists will use disposable supplies provided by the hotel, 

and 52.46% of 63.12% of tourists think that it is troublesome to carry toiletries and other supplies, which will occupy the space of the suitcase. 

From this point of view, most of the tourists will choose to use the disposable supplies provided by the hotel when they travel, so it is necessary 

to provide appropriate and thoughtful disposable supplies.



2. UNREASONABLE USE AND CONFIGURATION OF HOTEL CONSUMABLES


1.Some hotels do not know which consumables are frequently used by customers and need to be replenished immediately; I also do not know 

which consumables are not used often and do not need to be purchased. The following chart shows the consumption of consumables in a hotel.


2.As can be seen from the figure, the use quantity and proportion of each consumable are different, many hotels do not carry out statistics on 

the use of goods, do not understand the proportion of the use of goods, can not develop the item configuration plan to achieve cost reduction 

and efficiency.


3. QUALITEY PROBLEMS OF HOTEL CUNSUMABLES


In order to save costs, some hotels have applied poor quality consumables, making customers doubt the quality of the hotel's service. 

For example, customers complain that the hotel's bath products make their skin allergic, the quality of the hotel's razor is not good, easy to 

scratch the skin, the hotel's slippers slip. Although the use of poor quality consumables will save operating costs, the hotel's brand image 

will be affected.


4. A MANAGEMENT MODEL THAT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF A MARKET ECONOMY HAS NOT YET

BEEN ESTABLISHED


1. The basic work of hotel cost management is still weak and lacks a complete cost management system. Due to incomplete original records 

some hotels have not yet implemented an asset inventory system. The lack of income and expenditure plans resulted in a significant waste of 

consumable resources.


2. At the same time, many hotels over-rely on the existing cost accounting system, making it unable to meet the requirements of comprehensive 

cost management. The existing cost management system has only one method, so the purpose of cost management is only to reduce costs. This 

does not provide the correct information needed to make decisions, does not provide accurate cost information for each operational link, and does 

not reflect the business process deeply


TWO: TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HOTEL CONSUMABLES DECISION-MAKING


1. INCREASE THE UTILIZATION RATE OF LOW-COST CONSUMABLES


A complete package of toothpaste toothbrush, toothbrush a toothpaste is only 6g, 6g toothpaste is only enough for a guest to use once in the 

morning and evening. The toothbrush can be used repeatedly by the same guest, so it is more wasteful for continuing guests. But the next day

guests will have to open a new set of teeth because there is no toothpaste, and this cycle will increase the waste of toothbrushes.


SUGGESTIONS FOR WASTE TOOTHPASTE USE:


Put the toothpaste and toothbrush separately, the toothpaste needs to be dealt with separately and only the toothbrush can be packed. Then, 

for rooms staying for more than 3 days, specially equipped with large capacity (grams) of toothpaste. For hygiene, large-capacity toothpaste 

is recommended to buy bottled pressed toothpaste.



SUGGESTIONS FOR WASTE SOAP USE:


① Change the small soap into a bottle of hand sanitizer to reduce waste and improve the quality of the hotel.


② If guests need to wash small clothes, they can provide a small bag of brand washing powder for a fee. It can also increase the hotel's 

non-room revenue.


③ Female guest bag, it is recommended to remove directly, or only prepare in the center of the house.


2. OPTIMIZE THE APPLICATION OF CONSUMALE PRODUCTS


From the perspective of the use of consumables in the hotel, soap, toothpaste and shower gel are the most commonly used consumables, and 

the hotel needs to supplement these products in time. Soap is the most wasted consumable, in order to save operating costs, hotels need to 

develop new strategies to reduce the loss of soap.


A CALCULATION METHOD OF CONSUMABLE CONUMPTION IS GIVEN:


① Now there are 20 rooms on one floor of the hotel, and the person in charge of the hotel now counts the consumables and finds that the consumption 

of shampoo and body wash is as follows:


Shampoo 15 rooms should be equipped with 2×15=30 bags; The 15 rooms of shampoo actually use 2×15×60%=18 bags.


15 rooms of shower gel should be equipped with 2×15=30 bags; The 15 rooms of shampoo actually use 2×15×70%=21 bags.


② So, now to configure shampoo for 20 rooms, the calculation results are as follows: in theory,


Shampoo in 20 rooms should be equipped with 2×20=40 bags, and the actual configuration amount is 2×20×60%=24 bags.


The hotel can increase the number of 10% on the basis of the actual configuration as a mobile configuration, that is, the hotel warehouse reserves 7 

bags for preparatory consumables. The hotel can calculate once a week, once a month. Although this consumable allocation method seems to save 

only a small amount of consumable allocation at a time, the long-term application of this management method can save a lot of operating funds.


Basic Information
  • Year Established
    --
  • Business Type
    --
  • Country / Region
    --
  • Main Industry
    --
  • Main Products
    --
  • Enterprise Legal Person
    --
  • Total Employees
    --
  • Annual Output Value
    --
  • Export Market
    --
  • Cooperated Customers
    --
Chat with Us

Send your inquiry

Attachment:
    Choose a different language
    English
    Español
    العربية
    français
    ภาษาไทย
    Português
    Deutsch
    日本語
    한국어
    русский
    Current language:English