Diageo Saves $90K per Employee Annually by Simplifying and Offlining SAP PM With Liquid UI

SAP PM

Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Liquid UI for Handheld Scanguns | Liquid UI Offline | Liquid UI Server

$90K

Annual savings per employee

50%

Improvement in maintenance data integrity

8 → 4 minutes

Work order creation time

2 hours → 30 minutes

SAP PM training time

Challenges

Manual SAP navigation slowed maintenance tasks – Technicians moved across multiple SAP screens to retrieve plant, functional location, and storage location data.

Paper-based inspections created data errors – Asset Care inspection forms were completed on paper and later entered into SAP manually.

Complex SAP screens increased training time – Cluttered interfaces and missed entries reduced user adoption.

Limited access to equipment information on the plant floor – Technicians had to return to desktop terminals to view work orders and equipment details.

Solution

Simplified SAP PM screens – Unnecessary tabs and fields were removed and required information is auto-populated.

Mobile SAP PM execution on scanguns – Technicians create notifications, generate work orders, and access equipment data from handheld devices.

Offline access to SAP PM data – Users create or edit work orders and review maintenance data without network connectivity.

Digital Asset Care inspections with barcode access – Paper-based Asset Care forms were digitized, allowing technicians to scan equipment, complete compliance checks, and record updates with timestamps.