Picaso is the Scheduling, Demand Management, and Supply Chain monitoring system of the GBU.
The current name of Picaso is actually TPS (Tactical Planning and Scheduling). Picaso is the historical name of this application.
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Find more about the Picaso→SAP Production Schedule Upload Interface (Runs → Planned Orders)
Find out more about the Forecast → allocation & PIR interface (work in progress)
Find more about the SAP→Picaso Master Data Interface.
Find more about the SAP→Picaso Transactional Data Interface (Sales orders, Purchase Orders) (work in progress).
Find technical info about the Picaso ↔ SAP interfaces
Find more about the Interfaces filters
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more about Demand Management
The grids are visual alert monitors, that give you a general feel of the projected inventory per product/package/location.
more about Supply / Demand Monitoring (aka, the grids)
(aka: SKU Details)
A right click on a product/location takes you to the detailed screen that lets you analyze the situation of said product / location.
A graphical view of the projected inventory.
A monthly breakdown of the in- and outwards movements, with resulting EoM inventory and Days of Sale.
On hand inventory, broken down by lot.
Find more information about how Inventory Targets are calculated here
automated generation of a distribution plan
More about the Picaso Production Schedule module.
Started as conventions, gradually morphed into guidelines.
| Grids | First Digit | Convention |
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| 0 | Aro US | |
| 1 | Aro EU | |
| 2 | Japan | |
| 3 | Greater China | |
| 4 | India | |
| 5 | Korea | |
| 6 | Plastomers, PVDC, PVDF | |
| 7 | Fluids | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | Tecnoflon |
Picaso, EP, and WebDP master data are maintained in this central system.
A few other system monitoring, logging, and configurations are also found in ADM.
More about ADM
How Inventory targeting works in Picaso
Extracting Inventory Target with Excel
More about Inventory Targeting by Jaide.
PicReport is the reporting environment. We wanted to create our own ad-hoc custom reports.
It gives us access to all database in Picaso.
It is a read-only systems.
More about PicReport here
SAP is the key application for many departments in our company. The Planning group also uses a few SAP modules. Find training material for some of the most interesting ones.
| MD04 transaction & MRP setup | MD04 is a view on the projected inventory. |
Materials and Inventory | |
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Profit Center | D310%, D3450, D3460, D3490, F10%, F42%, F45%, F46%, F49% |
Valuation Class | Z000, Z049, Z050, Z053, Z061, Z100, Z101 |
Material Type | Z700, Z707 |
Orders, Production schedule status | |
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Profit Center | D310%, D3450, D3460, D3490, F10%, F42%, F45%, F46%, F49% |
Formulations | |
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Profit Center | F42%, F45%, F46%, F49% |
| OR | |
| Profit Center | F10% |
| Plant | AUA, AQS, AIS, MJS, GDS, PNZ, 53ZD, CZ08, CZ37, SEM, 5D13, KAL |
Team Clusters: | |
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Sales Organizations | 3470, 3383, 5642, 5685, 5835, 5782, 5846, 5876, 5978, 5991, 5955, 6246, 6267, 6327, 5726, 5785, P%CN |
Distribution Channel | 11 |
Division | 58, 61, 68 |
| We use the following selection criteria for WP1: | |
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| Profit Center | 7523-I1176, 7523-I1199, 7523-I1201, 7723-I1176, 7723-I1199, 7723-I1201. 6409-I1176, 6409-I1199, 6409-I1200, 6409-I1201 |
| Valuation Class | Z130 |
| Material Type | ZMAT |
The Picaso production schedule is uploaded into SAP every night (US late evening).
(Note that On-demand upload is also supported. Security must be given to a user to be allowed to upload the schedule. When running on-demand, runs on lines/locations that the user is allowed for are uploaded into SAP. More about this here.)
The interface creates one SAP Planned order for each Picaso run.
The production version of the SAP Planned order is either always 0001 or it is determined by the formula used for the run. Table Schedule Upload Unit Parameters drives what the interface works with (fixed PVersion or formula-driven).
The screencopy below is that of a Picaso run.
Its attributes:
The corresponding SAP Planned order:
The end date of the SAP Planned order is actually driven by multiple factors: the QC Lag, the Schedule upload Lag Adjustment, and the SAP Goods Receipt Processing Time also affect the Planned order. Read the corresponding note to know more about it.
The DRP order upload runs only at 7 AM, noon, and 5:20 PM
No uploads are sent on Saturdays. Any orders flagged on Saturday will be sent at 5:20 PM on Sunday.
I also added some messaging to the title of the grid extender to indicate when the next upload will be sent to SAP or if the last upload of the day has already been sent:
