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.
Simplified IT Ecosystem
Interfaces (zoom in on Picaso & EP)
List of Planning Applications
Picaso Modules
- Demand Management
- Supply / Demand monitoring (aka the Grids)
- Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP) - automated generation of a distribution plan
- Production schedule (hourly buckets) - full manual or automated (Detailed Scheduler)
- (add-on) Dynamic Scheduling - automated generation of a production schedule
Other Apps
- ADM: Advanced Data Management
- EP: Enterprise Planning
- Inventory targeting: calculation of target stock, setting safety stock
- WebDP: Web-based Demand Management
- PicReport: Access-based reporting system
- Management Dashboard
Planning Applications Overview
Demand Management
- Customer/product/pack/region (month)
- All key figures displayed/modifiable (security depending)
- Sales History: shipped orders
- Open orders: outstanding orders
- Inheritance logic
- Sales Rep -> Account Mgr forecast (manual)
- Adjusted Forecast -> netting (automated) (find the logic here)
- Sales Control goes to SAP for allocation (manual)
- Manger -> Planner forecast (manual)
- Final forecast goes into Supply/Demand
- Real time (no snapshot/frozen period) <-> Supply/Demand
more about Demand Management
Supply / Demand monitoring (daily buckets)
The Grid
Plot
On-hand Inventory
Inbound and Outbound orders
Forecast Overview
- From the Picaso forecasting module (real time update)
- Forecast = 1 value per month
- Inv. projection: forecast broken down into daily buckets
Production Schedule Overview
- From the Picaso production schedule module (real time update)
- Picaso schedule copied to SAP overnight
Inventory Target
- Safety stock and Max Stock setting
- Suggested values (driven by forecast error and service level)
- real time integration with ADM
Distribution Requirement Planning
automated generation of a distribution plan
Production schedule (hourly buckets) - full manual or automated (Detailed Scheduler)
- Finite capacity. One production line = 1 column
- Production campaign duration driven by qty (manual) and production rate (from master data)
- Production rate updated in Picaso DB (no SAP interface)
- BOM from SAP (daily interface)
- Automatic transition time calculation (optional)
- Each line scheduled individually
- shared resource not supported
- multisep production process to be managed by hand
- No feedback for in-process (manual update of in process runs)
- Daily interface w/SAP (one campaign = one planned order)
- One Schedule table used at a time (sharing conflict)
- Production Scheduling Scenario (what-if analysis)
- Navigation to output- / input product supply/demand balance
- Real time update within Picaso ecosystem
Dynamic Scheduling
- Automated Schedule builder
- embedded in Picaso system (add-on)
- No additional interface channel required
- Transparent to user: one add’l function in the menu
- Result goes into Picaso Schedule Table
- No different from a manual schedule
- Data flow to SAP goes from there
ADM: Advanced Data Management
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
EP (Enterprise Planning)
Inventory targeting (calculation of target stock, setting safety stock)
WebDP (Web Demand Planning)
- Web enabled
- Horizon: 12 months(?)
- Accounts assigned to Account Mgrs (via Sales Force, manual synchronization[?])
- Forecast recorded at product / ship-to / month level
- Price: default (statistical), manual override possible
- No ‘forecast snapshot’. Picaso modules consider forecast from DP as soon as updated.
- Forecast accuracy (Sales Reps forecast of M-2, vs actual ship of M0)
PicReport (Picaso Reporting)
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
Management Dashboard