- What This Certification Actually Certifies
- Exam Format and Registration Mechanics
- The Seven Preparation-Scope Domains
- Why MRP and Planning Topics Deserve Extra Hours
- Production Orders and Plan to Produce Processes
- Process Industry Planning Specifics
- Configuration, Implementation, Reporting and Analytics
- Supply Chain and EWM Integration
- Sequencing Your Preparation by Domain
- Who Benefits From This Credential
- Frequently Asked Questions
- C_TS422_2601 is SAP's Production Planning and Manufacturing certification for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, delivered as a 1-activity System Based Assessment.
- The exam runs 3 hours with a 64% passing score and is available in English.
- MRP, Production Orders, and Plan to Produce together make up 60% of the preparation scope.
- The domain percentages are preparation-scope data, not a currently published SAP blueprint.
What This Certification Actually Certifies
C_TS422_2601 identifies the SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing credential, issued by SAP. It is an associate-level certification aimed at consultants, implementation specialists, and key users who configure and run manufacturing processes inside SAP S/4HANA. The credential applies to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and to SAP S/4HANA on-premise, so the knowledge you build transfers across both deployment models.
If you are still orienting yourself on the naming conventions, the articles on what C_TS422_2601 is and what the code stands for break down the structure of SAP exam codes. In short, the "C" marks a certification at the associate level, "TS" denotes the SAP S/4HANA implementation track, and the trailing characters identify the topic and release cycle.
Exam Format and Registration Mechanics
Current SAP certification information describes the exam as a 1-activity System Based Assessment with a 3-hour duration and a 64% pass score. The exam is offered in English. You can read more about how that threshold works in practice in our guide to the C_TS422_2601 passing score.
| Attribute | What SAP Currently Lists |
|---|---|
| Certification title | SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing |
| Assessment format | 1-activity System Based Assessment |
| Duration | 3 hours |
| Pass score | 64% |
| Language | English |
| Applies to | S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and S/4HANA on-premise |
| Official question count | Not verified |
| Public pass rate | Not verified |
| Member / non-member fee | Not verified |
Be careful with any source that claims a precise question count, a pass rate, or a fee schedule without citing SAP directly. None of those figures were verified for this credential, so confirm current pricing and scheduling inside SAP's own certification environment before you budget. Our pages on certification cost and exam dates and scheduling explain how to approach those decisions without relying on unverified numbers.
What "System Based Assessment" Means for Preparation
The label tells you the assessment is delivered through SAP's system-based testing approach rather than being described as a conventional multiple-choice exam. Practically, that means you should not prepare by memorizing definitions alone. You should be comfortable navigating process flows, understanding where a setting lives, and reasoning about what happens when a planning parameter changes. Hands-on exposure to an S/4HANA manufacturing environment pays off far more than reading summaries.
For realistic expectations on difficulty, see how hard the C_TS422_2601 exam is, and for eligibility questions consult the requirements guide.
The Seven Preparation-Scope Domains
SAP's current certification page does not display a complete official weighted exam-domain table. The seven domains and percentages below are retained as 2026 preparation-scope data for C_TS422_2601. They are useful for allocating study time, but they should not be treated as an official SAP-published exam blueprint or as proof of official weighting.
| 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% |
A fuller walkthrough of each area is available in the complete guide to all seven content areas. Here we focus on what each domain demands in practical terms.
Why MRP and Planning Topics Deserve Extra Hours
Material Requirements Planning carries 20% of the preparation scope, and SAP's linked learning journey reinforces how central planning is to this credential. The journey, "Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition," covers supply-chain planning, material requirements planning and capacity evaluation, planning strategies, pMRP, MRP Live, DDMRP, PP/DS, and detailed scheduling and optimization.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Candidates must understand how the planning run converts demand into procurement proposals and planned orders, and how planning parameters shape the result.
- MRP Live and how it differs conceptually from classic MRP execution
- Planning strategies and how they govern the relationship between forecast, sales orders, and production
- Material master planning data, including lot sizing, procurement type, and planning time fences
- Predictive MRP (pMRP) as a forward-looking simulation of supply and demand
- Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) concepts, including buffer-based planning logic
- Capacity evaluation as a companion to material planning
Interpreting Planning Results
Expect scenarios that give you a set of master data values and ask what the planning run will produce, or why a particular proposal did not appear. Practice reading planning results, understanding exception messages, and tracing a shortage back to its cause. The ability to reason from configuration to outcome is more valuable here than memorizing menu paths.
PP/DS and Detailed Scheduling
The learning journey explicitly lists PP/DS (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling) alongside detailed scheduling and optimization. Make sure you understand where PP/DS sits relative to standard MRP, what problem it solves, and how finite scheduling differs from infinite-capacity planning. These topics connect planning, capacity, and execution, so they tend to reward conceptual clarity.
Production Orders and Plan to Produce Processes
Production Orders and Plan to Produce (PP) Processes each carry 20% of the preparation scope. Together with MRP they account for 60% of the total, which is why they form the core of any sensible study plan.
Production Orders
You need to know the full lifecycle of an order from creation to settlement, and how order data drives downstream activity.
- Creating orders from planned orders and converting planning proposals into executable documents
- Order release, component availability checks, and material staging
- Goods issue, confirmation, and goods receipt against the order
- Order status management and what each status permits or blocks
- Production and process orders as covered in SAP's learning journey
- Order settlement and the link to cost accounting
Plan to Produce (PP) Processes
This domain frames the end-to-end flow from planning through execution, and it expects you to understand how the pieces connect.
- Manufacturing master data: materials, bills of material, work centers, and routings or recipes
- The sequence from demand through planning, order creation, execution, and completion
- Different manufacturing approaches and how the system supports each
- How master data quality affects every downstream step
Manufacturing master data is the foundation of everything else. A flawed bill of material or routing produces flawed planning results and flawed orders, so expect questions that test whether you can spot the master data cause behind a process symptom. Our one-page cheat sheet is a handy reference for the master data relationships you should be able to recite from memory.
Process Industry Planning Specifics
Production Planning for Process Industry represents 15% of the preparation scope, and it is the domain candidates from discrete-manufacturing backgrounds most often underestimate. SAP's learning journey names process orders explicitly, which signals that the exam expects you to distinguish them from discrete production orders.
Production Planning for Process Industry
Process manufacturing uses different structures and terminology from discrete manufacturing, and the exam rewards candidates who can tell them apart.
- Process orders and how they differ from production orders
- Recipes and master recipes versus routings
- Handling of co-products and by-products in planning and execution
- Batch-related considerations common in process environments
- How planning logic applies when production is continuous or batch-based
If your experience is purely discrete, schedule extra time here. Build a side-by-side comparison of discrete and process structures so the vocabulary becomes automatic.
Configuration, Implementation, Reporting and Analytics
Configuration and Implementation and Reporting and Analytics each represent 10% of the preparation scope. They are smaller than the planning and execution domains, but they are also where consultants-in-training tend to lose easy points because the topics feel peripheral.
Configuration and Implementation
Because this is a consultant-oriented credential, you should understand how manufacturing behavior is controlled through configuration, not just how it is used.
- Customizing settings that govern order types, planning behavior, and confirmation
- Differences in what you can configure across S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and on-premise
- Implementation sequencing: which master data and settings must exist before others
- How configuration choices ripple into planning and execution
Reporting and Analytics
Manufacturing users need visibility into plan versus actual, shortages, capacity load, and order status.
- Standard monitoring and analysis tools for production and planning
- Interpreting capacity evaluation results to identify overloads
- Using analytical views to diagnose shortages and delays
- Knowing which report answers which operational question
Because the exam is a system-based assessment, familiarity with where information surfaces in the system matters. Spend time exploring planning and order monitoring views, not just reading about them.
Supply Chain and EWM Integration
Integration with Supply Chain and Integration with Extended Warehouse Management is the smallest domain at 5% of the preparation scope. Do not ignore it, but do not let it consume disproportionate study time either.
Integration with Supply Chain and EWM
Manufacturing does not operate in isolation. Materials move in and out of production through warehouse and supply chain processes.
- How production supply and staging connect to warehouse processes
- Where manufacturing planning meets broader supply-chain planning
- The conceptual boundary between production execution and Extended Warehouse Management
- Handoff points for goods issue to production and goods receipt from production
Key Takeaway
Treat integration as a set of handoff points. If you can state where a production process hands off to procurement, warehouse, or finance and what document or event triggers it, you will cover most of what this domain expects.
Sequencing Your Preparation by Domain
A study plan for C_TS422_2601 should follow the dependency chain of the content itself: master data first, then planning, then execution, then the supporting domains. Here is one way to order the work across six weeks, with the reasoning attached to each block. For a broader methodology, see our C_TS422_2601 study guide.
Plan to Produce Foundations and Master Data
- Work through materials, BOMs, work centers, and routings or recipes
- Map the full plan-to-produce flow end to end
- Why first: every later domain depends on correct master data
Material Requirements Planning
- Cover MRP Live, planning strategies, and planning parameters
- Study pMRP, DDMRP, capacity evaluation, and PP/DS
- Why here: it is a 20% area and its logic feeds order creation
Production Orders
- Follow an order from creation through release, confirmation, and settlement
- Compare production orders with process orders
- Why here: it builds directly on planning proposals
Process Industry and Configuration
- Focus on recipes, co-products, and batch-related planning
- Review customizing settings that control manufacturing behavior
- Why here: these reuse concepts from earlier weeks with new vocabulary
Reporting, Integration, and Full Review
- Cover analytics, supply chain and EWM handoff points
- Run timed practice sessions to build pacing for the 3-hour window
- Why last: smaller domains are best reviewed once the core is solid
Adjust the weeks to your own background. A consultant with strong discrete manufacturing experience can compress Week 4 and expand Week 5, while someone from a process-industry background will do the opposite. When you are ready to test yourself, the C_TS422_2601 practice tests let you check readiness against domain-style scenarios, and you can read about the realistic expectations in our pass rate analysis.
Who Benefits From This Credential
The certification is most useful to people whose work touches SAP manufacturing implementations or support. Typical profiles include:
- SAP PP consultants at implementation partners who configure planning and production for clients migrating to S/4HANA
- Internal SAP functional analysts at manufacturers who support shop-floor and planning teams
- Supply chain and production planners who want to understand the system logic behind the plans they manage
- Professionals transitioning from ECC who need to demonstrate S/4HANA manufacturing competence
Employers that run manufacturing on SAP, along with the consultancies that serve them, are the natural audience for this credential. For a look at the roles that value it, see our overview of C_TS422_2601 jobs, and for the earnings picture consult the salary guide. If you are weighing the investment, the ROI analysis walks through the trade-offs, and the training options page covers how to build skills before you sit the exam. Practice material is available at the main practice test site.
Frequently Asked Questions
It certifies the SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing credential. It validates knowledge of manufacturing master data, planning, production orders, and related processes in S/4HANA. It applies to both S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and S/4HANA on-premise.
Current SAP information lists a 1-activity System Based Assessment lasting 3 hours, with a 64% pass score. The exam is available in English. Official question count, public pass rate, and fee details were not verified, so check SAP directly.
No. SAP's current certification page does not display a complete official weighted exam-domain table. The seven domains and their percentages are retained as 2026 preparation-scope data and should guide study time allocation, not be treated as official exam weighting.
Start with Material Requirements Planning, Production Orders, and Plan to Produce Processes, which together account for 60% of the preparation scope. SAP's learning journey also highlights pMRP, MRP Live, DDMRP, PP/DS, and process orders, so cover those thoroughly.
SAP's linked learning journey, "Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition," is the primary official resource. It covers manufacturing master data, supply-chain planning, MRP and capacity evaluation, planning strategies, and production and process orders. Supplement it with hands-on system practice and timed practice tests.