- Exam Snapshot: The Numbers You Can Rely On
- How to Read the Domain Percentages
- Material Requirements Planning: The Core Cheat Sheet
- Production Orders and Plan to Produce Processes
- Production Planning for Process Industry
- Configuration, Implementation, Reporting and Analytics
- Integration with Supply Chain and Extended Warehouse Management
- Sequencing Your Review Across Seven Domains
- Frequently Asked Questions
- C_TS422 is a 1-activity System Based Assessment lasting 3 hours, with a 64% pass score, delivered in English.
- It covers SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise Production Planning and Manufacturing.
- MRP, Production Orders and Plan to Produce processes make up the heaviest preparation-scope domains at 20% each.
- SAP has not published an official weighted blueprint, so treat domain percentages as preparation scope only.
Exam Snapshot: The Numbers You Can Rely On
A good cheat sheet starts with what is actually verified. For SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing, SAP's current certification information gives a short list of hard facts. Everything else you may have seen on forums should be treated with caution.
| Item | What SAP's current information shows |
|---|---|
| Certification name | SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing |
| Exam code family | C_TS422 (this site tracks the C_TS422_2601 release) |
| Format | 1-activity System Based Assessment |
| Duration | 3 hours |
| Pass score | 64% |
| Applies to | SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise |
| Language | English |
| Official question count | Not verified |
| Public pass rate | Not verified |
| Member / non-member fee | Not verified |
Two items deserve emphasis. First, the 64% pass score means you can miss roughly a third of the assessment and still pass, but that margin disappears quickly if one of the heavier domains is a weak spot. For a deeper treatment of how scoring works, see the C_TS422_2601 passing score guide. Second, because no fee or question count was verified, check SAP's certification page for current pricing and registration mechanics before you budget; the certification cost breakdown explains how to think about the cost components without relying on unverified figures.
How to Read the Domain Percentages
The seven domains below, with their percentages, are retained as 2026 preparation-scope data for C_TS422_2601. SAP's certification page does not display a complete official weighted exam-domain table, so these numbers help you allocate study time but do not establish official exam weighting. Use them as a planning heuristic, not a promise.
| Domain | Preparation-scope weight |
|---|---|
| Plan to Produce (PP) Processes | 20% |
| Production Orders | 20% |
| Material Requirements Planning (MRP) | 20% |
| Production Planning for Process Industry | 15% |
| Configuration and Implementation | 10% |
| Reporting and Analytics | 10% |
| Integration with Supply Chain and Integration with Extended Warehouse Management | 5% |
For the full breakdown of each area, read the complete guide to all 7 content areas. The rest of this cheat sheet walks through the topics SAP's linked learning journey, "Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition," associates with each area.
Material Requirements Planning: The Core Cheat Sheet
MRP carries a 20% preparation-scope weight, and it is also the foundation that makes the production order and Plan to Produce domains easier. SAP's learning journey explicitly lists supply-chain planning, material requirements planning and capacity evaluation, planning strategies, pMRP, MRP Live and DDMRP. Treat each as a distinct topic you should be able to explain and distinguish.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Know what each planning approach does, when it applies, and what it produces.
- MRP Live: the S/4HANA-optimized MRP run; understand how it differs from classic MRP in how and where processing happens.
- Planning strategies: be able to match a strategy to a business scenario such as make-to-stock versus make-to-order thinking.
- pMRP: predictive MRP is a forward-looking simulation concept; know its purpose rather than treating it as a replacement for the live run.
- DDMRP: demand-driven planning uses buffers and decoupling logic; expect to recognize its core vocabulary.
- Capacity evaluation: understand how load against capacity is assessed after requirements are planned.
Manufacturing master data feeds everything
Before MRP produces anything sensible, master data must be right. The learning journey lists manufacturing master data as a core topic. Be comfortable with how the material master, bill of materials, work centers, routings and production versions work together, since planning results and order creation both depend on them. A frequent exam pattern is a scenario where a planning result looks wrong, and the underlying cause is a master data setting. Practice tracing symptoms back to their source field.
Production Orders and Plan to Produce Processes
Production Orders and Plan to Produce (PP) Processes each carry a 20% preparation-scope weight, so together they make up a large share of your preparation. These domains reward end-to-end process fluency: you should be able to narrate an order from creation through completion.
Production Orders
The learning journey covers production and process orders. Know the lifecycle and what happens at each step.
- How a planned order converts into a production order, and what data it inherits.
- Order release, material availability checks and capacity considerations before execution.
- Goods issue to the order and goods receipt from the order, and their effect on stock.
- Confirmation of operations and how it records progress and consumption.
- Order settlement and status handling at the end of the lifecycle.
Plan to Produce (PP) Processes
This domain is about the process view that ties planning and execution together.
- The sequence from demand and planning through order execution to completion.
- How different manufacturing approaches change the process flow.
- Where scheduling decisions fit relative to MRP output.
- The handoffs between planning, production and inventory management.
Key Takeaway
Memorize order statuses and the actions that trigger them. Scenario questions often hinge on which step must happen before the next one is possible, such as release before confirmation, so learn the lifecycle as a chain rather than as isolated facts.
Production Planning for Process Industry
At 15% preparation-scope weight, this domain is the fourth largest and the one most likely to catch candidates who studied only discrete manufacturing. SAP's learning journey names process orders explicitly, which is your cue that process-industry concepts matter.
Process Industry Essentials
Focus on how process manufacturing differs from discrete, and be ready to explain the differences.
- Process orders versus production orders: what changes in structure and terminology.
- Recipe-oriented thinking and how it replaces routing-and-BOM thinking in process scenarios.
- Handling of co-products and by-products, since process manufacturing often yields more than one output.
- Batch-related considerations that are common in process environments.
If your own project background is discrete manufacturing, schedule extra time here. The conceptual mapping between discrete and process objects is a classic source of wrong answers because candidates assume the terms are interchangeable.
Configuration, Implementation, Reporting and Analytics
Configuration and Implementation and Reporting and Analytics each carry 10% preparation-scope weight. They are smaller individually, but together they equal one full 20% domain, and they separate consultants from end users.
Configuration and Implementation
- Know which settings control planning behavior, order types and scheduling parameters, and the logic behind choosing them.
- Understand how implementation decisions in Cloud Private Edition differ in flexibility from more restricted cloud models; the certification applies to Private Edition and on-premise.
- Practice reading a requirement and identifying which configuration object addresses it.
Reporting and Analytics
- Be able to identify where planners and production supervisors look for MRP results, order status and capacity load.
- Understand the difference between transactional monitoring and analytical reporting.
- Know what information supports decisions such as rescheduling, expediting or adjusting capacity.
Integration with Supply Chain and Extended Warehouse Management
This domain carries the smallest preparation-scope weight at 5%, but do not skip it. A few integration questions can be the margin between passing and failing at a 64% threshold, and they are often among the more approachable items if you have prepared even lightly.
Integration Touchpoints
Concentrate on how manufacturing hands off to and receives from adjacent processes.
- How production supply and staging interact with warehouse processes.
- The role of Extended Warehouse Management in material provisioning and movement tied to production.
- How supply chain planning outputs connect back to manufacturing execution.
Sequencing Your Review Across Seven Domains
Generic study methods matter less than ordering your topics sensibly. Because MRP output feeds order creation, and orders feed process execution, a dependency-based sequence works well. For a fuller methodology, the C_TS422_2601 study guide covers pacing in detail.
Master Data and MRP
- Review manufacturing master data relationships.
- Work through MRP Live, planning strategies, pMRP and DDMRP.
Orders and Plan to Produce
- Trace the full production order lifecycle.
- Connect planning output to execution and scheduling.
Process Industry and Configuration
- Compare process orders with production orders.
- Link requirements to configuration objects.
Reporting, Integration and Mock Review
- Cover analytics and EWM touchpoints.
- Take timed practice sets and review weak domains.
Adjust the length to your experience. Consultants with live project time on S/4HANA manufacturing may compress this; newcomers should expand it. If you are unsure where you stand, the difficulty guide helps you gauge the effort, and the requirements article explains eligibility and prerequisites.
Frequently Asked Questions
SAP's current certification information lists a 64% pass score for the C_TS422 certification. The exam is a 1-activity System Based Assessment with a 3-hour duration. See the passing score article for more on how to approach that threshold.
No. SAP's current certification page does not display a complete official weighted exam-domain table. The percentages in this cheat sheet are preparation-scope data for C_TS422_2601 and should be used to guide study time, not treated as a published blueprint.
Yes. SAP's certification information states that it applies to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise, and the exam is available in English.
No official current question count or member/non-member fee was verified for this article. Confirm both on SAP's certification page before registering, and see the cost guide for how to plan around the variables.
Start with MRP and manufacturing master data, then move to production orders and Plan to Produce processes. These areas carry the largest preparation-scope weights and underpin the rest. Once you have the basics, practice tests on the main site let you check how well you can apply them under time pressure, and the cheat sheet hub keeps the key facts in one place for last-minute review.