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.
Find more about the Picaso→SAP Production Schedule Upload Interface
more about Demand Management
The grids are visual alert monitors, that give you a general feel of the projected inventory per product/package/location.
In Picaso, hit this icon: . It opens a list of Grids:
Use the search to find the one you need.
Once you find the one you were looking for, hit: 
The grids are sorted alphabetically.
Each grid's name starts with a number. Find the meaning of these numbers here
You may also create a grid (hit: 
) and/or understand how a grid works by looking at its properties (
)
The grid properties, beside its name and description, is mostly its filters.
You may add, modify, or delete filters, which are really just selection criteria.
In this example, modifying the first filter (Product Name), shows how it works: this grid selects all products with a 'Product Name' name starting with PVDC. the '%' is a wildcard. (the other filter looks at another product property: product group = 'PREMIX').
Notice the 
checkbox; if activated 
it lets you fill in the value of that filter every time you open the grid:
The main screen shows an alert monitor which provides with visual on the projected stock situation:
| Icon / Color | |
|---|---|
| projected inventory negative |
| projected inventory positive, but lower than safety stock |
| projected inventory above safety stock, and below high target (= OK zone) |
| projected inventory above high target (=excess) |
| upper left black triangle shows a punctual receipt (inbound stock transfer, or purchase) |
| lower left black triangle shows a punctual requirement (outbound stock transfer, or sales order) |
| black solid line shows a continuous receipt (production) |
| red solid line shows a continuous requirement (consumption) |
Sort items by:
| Sort name | Sort by |
|---|---|
| Product | Product Name / Location code / Package Code |
| Product Description | Prod Description / Location code / Package code |
| Locaiton | Location Code / Prod Name / Package Code |
| Init | Final inventory (see Stats) |
| Min | Min inventory (see Stats) |
| In | Xfers in (see Stats) |
| Out | Orders (see Stats) |
| Forecast | (see Stats) |
| Production | (see Stats) |
| Consumption | (see Stats) |
Each sort can be either ascending or descending.
Stats shows the key metrics that characterize the situation of a product/location over the horizon defined by the grid.
| Init | Starting inventory |
| Xfers In | Total inbound stock transfer volume over the grid's time span |
| Backord In | Total overdue inbound stock transfer volume |
| Orders | Total outbound volume over the grid's time span |
| Backords | Total overdue outbound volume |
| Final | Inventory at the end of the grid's horizon |
| Low | Lowest inventory point over the grid's time span |
The period of analysis can be found on the bottom of the Stats screen:
If a product/location hits an alert threshold over the time span of the grid, the most critical one is the one that shows on that screen.
Example, TXAU / S5 in AUA goes lower than safety stock towards the end of the horizon, and this is why it shows in yellow.
Finally, the 'By Month' screen lets you show all stats by Month instead of over the entire period. The possible stats are on the bottom of that screen:
In this example, it shows the lowest inventory point of each month.
This icon (
) non-ironically showing a crystal ball, lets you switch the forecast on or off. It affects what the grids tell you. Just hit the icon to switch it on or off.
with forecast (icon is blue)
without forecast (icon is greyed out 
)
TIME3 in CZ37 has forecast. It shows that when forecast is activated, inventory is globally in the green zone. When forecast is disactivated, it shows excess inventory.
Hit the bottom right hand key that looks like a vintage hammer (hence, its name):
It lets you pick amongst the following configurations:
| Config | What it does |
|---|---|
| Combine Equivalent Products | The grids shows equivalent products as one single product (=aggregates inventory, receipts and requirements over one product) |
| Combine Equivalent Packages | Same with package codes of a product |
| Combine Equivalent Locations | The grids shows merged locations as one (everything on the parent location) |
| Use Only System-Generated Transfers | DRP Records factored in in the Grid, however only outside of the Time Fence (for more on Time Fences, check out the Inventory Targets and Preference section) |
| Ignore All System-Generated Transfers | DRP Records not factored in at all |
| Use All System-Generated Transfers | DRP Records factored in. |
Change the Grid horizon with a right click anywhere on the screen. Select Grid Properties.
this is the number of days (here: 60) the Grid shows. You may change it up to 330 days:
This config applies to your user only; it also applies to all grids.
Related Grid lets you check out the grid of the product you right click on:
| By Product: all locations for that product |
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| By Location: all products for that location |
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RIght click on the column header of the grid; it lets you pick additional columns for display:
Tips: the 'SKU Resp' tells you if a product is defined as MTS or MTO (defined in Inventory Targets and Preferences):
Ignore
Status:
automated generation of a distribution plan
More about the Picaso Production Schedule module.
Started as conventions, gradually morphed into guidelines.
| Grids | First Digit | Convention |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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
The Picaso production schedule is uploaded into SAP every night (US late evening).
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.
