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Closed-loop visual audits and vendor asset portal for Diageo

Field audit insights wired to BI for follow-up planning — plus a vendor-facing portal to raise and track branding and event-asset requests.

Audit
Availability & distribution
BI scoring
Plan the next activation
Portal
Vendor asset requests
The customer

Diageo at a glance

Diageo needed a more structured, connected way to manage field visibility, brand availability, distribution checks and event-asset deployment. The workflow spans multiple stakeholders — third-party audit teams, internal BI teams, and external vendors responsible for branding and event assets. The goal: let field audit insights directly drive follow-up actions, while vendor-led asset requests are tracked with greater transparency.

The challenge

Audits, insights and vendor requests, disconnected

Visual audits, availability checks, distribution reviews and event-asset requests were managed across different teams and external partners. Without a connected workflow, audit findings stayed separate from planning, and vendor requests for branding or event assets were hard to monitor across approvals, creation and deployment.

Third-party visual audits

Capturing availability and distribution from the field.

Audit results connected to BI

A flow from field findings into BI reporting.

Follow-up planning from insights

Next audits and activations planned from field insight.

External vendor access

A way for vendors to raise event-asset requests.

Request & approval tracking

Visibility across creation, approval and deployment.

Event-asset coordination

Stages, pop-up shops and event branding materials.

The solution

Two connected workflow builds

SalesDiary delivered a closed-loop audit-to-BI process and a vendor-facing asset request portal. Third-party teams capture field-level availability and distribution; those inputs connect to Diageo's BI platform, where scoring helps plan the next round of audits and activations. In parallel, external vendors raise and track event-asset requests through their own login.

Audit workflow
Visual audit

Third-party teams capture field inputs.

BI scoring

Availability & distribution scored.

Follow-up / activation

Next audit or activation planned.

Vendor asset workflow
Vendor request
Review
Approval
Asset creation
Deployment tracking
The results

Business impact

A more transparent, connected operating model for visual audits, field activations and event-asset management.

Better visibility into field availability and distribution
More structured third-party audit execution
Improved connection between audit findings and future activations
Easier coordination with external branding and asset vendors
Clearer request tracking from creation to deployment
Better approval visibility across internal and external teams
A more organised process for event branding, pop-up shops and stages
Why it matters

A closed loop from audit to activation

SalesDiary helped Diageo build a closed-loop process connecting visual audits, BI scoring, follow-up activations and vendor asset management. Audit results flow into BI-led planning, while external vendors raise and track event-asset requests through a dedicated portal — a more structured, transparent and scalable workflow for field audits, brand visibility, event assets and activation execution.

Related modules

Modules that power this

The SalesDiary modules behind this closed-loop audit and asset workflow.

Merchandising & Visual Audit

Planogram, facings and share-of-shelf captured with photo proof.

Market Intelligence

Availability and distribution signals that feed BI-led planning.

Branding & Asset Management

Event assets and vendor requests tracked through to deployment.

Related platforms

Platforms behind this

The SalesDiary platform this solution runs on.

Field Sales Automation

The offline-first field app behind visual audits and activations.

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