- What the Certification Actually Is
- Exam Format and Scoring Facts
- What a System Based Assessment Means for You
- The Seven Preparation Areas
- Concrete Topics You Must Master
- Who Should Pursue It and Who Hires for It
- Registration, Fees, and What Is Not Verified
- Sequencing Your Preparation by Domain
- Clearing Up the Acronym Confusion
- Frequently Asked Questions
- C_TS422_2601 is SAP's Production Planning and Manufacturing certification for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
- The exam is a 3-hour, 1-activity System Based Assessment with a 64% pass score.
- It applies to both Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise, and is offered in English.
- Plan to Produce, Production Orders, and MRP together make up 60% of the preparation scope.
What the Certification Actually Is
C_TS422_2601 is the exam code for SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing, issued by SAP. It validates that a consultant or practitioner can implement and configure manufacturing processes in SAP S/4HANA: the master data that feeds production, the planning runs that generate supply proposals, and the execution of production and process orders on the shop floor.
The credential sits in SAP's associate-level consultant family. It is aimed at people who configure, implement, or support manufacturing scenarios rather than people who simply use the transactions day to day. If you have ever wondered how a planned order becomes a production order, how MRP decides what to procure or produce, or how a process-industry recipe differs from a discrete-manufacturing routing, this certification tests exactly that kind of knowledge.
The "2601" suffix identifies the release version of the exam. SAP versions its certification exams so that content tracks the current product release, which is why it is worth confirming you are preparing for the right edition. For a plain-language walkthrough of the code itself, see What Is C_TS422_2601? and What Does C_TS422_2601 Stand For?
Exam Format and Scoring Facts
The facts SAP currently publishes are compact, so it helps to see them in one place. Anything not in this table was not verified and should not be assumed.
| Attribute | What SAP Currently Shows |
|---|---|
| Full title | SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing |
| Exam format | System Based Assessment, 1 activity |
| 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 |
The 64% pass score is the number to internalize. For a deeper look at how that threshold plays out, read C_TS422_2601 Passing Score 2026. For the question of how demanding the exam feels in practice, see How Hard Is the C_TS422_2601 Exam?
What a System Based Assessment Means for You
The most distinctive thing about this exam is its format. SAP describes it as a 1-activity System Based Assessment with a 3-hour duration. That wording signals something different from a conventional multiple-choice test, and candidates should take it seriously when planning how to study.
Because SAP has not published a complete description of the activity here, treat the details cautiously. What you can reasonably infer from the format label is that three hours is a long working window, and that time management inside a single extended activity is a different skill from pacing through dozens of independent questions. Practice working through multi-step manufacturing scenarios end to end: set up or review master data, run planning, evaluate results, convert proposals, and execute orders.
Our practice test platform is designed to help you rehearse the knowledge underneath these scenarios, so that when you are in the system you are recalling concepts rather than discovering them.
The Seven Preparation Areas
SAP's certification page does not display a complete official weighted exam-domain table. The seven areas and percentages below are retained as 2026 preparation-scope data for C_TS422_2601. They are useful for allocating study time, but they are not a currently published SAP exam blueprint and should not be read as official exam weighting.
| Preparation Area | Share of Preparation Scope |
|---|---|
| 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% |
Three areas, Plan to Produce, Production Orders, and MRP, account for 60% of the scope. That concentration makes them the natural backbone of your preparation. For a section-by-section breakdown, see C_TS422_2601 Exam Domains 2026: Complete Guide to All 7 Content Areas.
Concrete Topics You Must Master
SAP's linked learning journey, "Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition," is the clearest official signal of what the exam world covers. It spans manufacturing master data, supply-chain planning, material requirements planning and capacity evaluation, planning strategies, pMRP, MRP Live, DDMRP, PP/DS, detailed scheduling and optimization, and production and process orders. The blocks below translate that scope into study targets.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Understand how planning runs turn demand into supply proposals and how you steer the outcome.
- MRP Live as the S/4HANA planning run, and how it differs conceptually from classic planning approaches
- Planning strategies and how they govern make-to-stock versus make-to-order behavior
- Predictive MRP (pMRP) for simulating future requirements
- Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) concepts and when buffers replace traditional netting logic
- Capacity evaluation as a companion to material planning
Plan to Produce (PP) Processes
This area connects master data, planning, and execution into a single end-to-end flow.
- Manufacturing master data: materials, bills of material, work centers, routings or recipes
- PP/DS for planning with finite capacity, plus detailed scheduling and optimization
- How planned results flow into executable orders
Production Orders
Execution is where plans meet reality, and it carries equal weight to MRP in the preparation scope.
- Order creation, release, and the controls that govern each status
- Material staging, goods issue, confirmation, and goods receipt
- Order settlement concepts and how variances surface
- Process orders as the process-industry counterpart
Production Planning for Process Industry
Process manufacturing has its own vocabulary and structures, and candidates from discrete backgrounds often underestimate it.
- Master recipes versus routings
- Process orders and how they differ from production orders
- Co-products, by-products, and batch-oriented thinking
Configuration, Reporting, and Integration
These smaller areas total 25% of the preparation scope and are easy to neglect.
- Configuration and Implementation: the Customizing decisions that shape how planning and orders behave
- Reporting and Analytics: the tools used to monitor plans, orders, and capacity
- Integration with Supply Chain and Integration with Extended Warehouse Management: how manufacturing hands off to and receives from warehousing
Key Takeaway
Do not treat the integration area as ignorable just because it is the smallest slice. Manufacturing scenarios routinely touch warehousing, and a single scenario can combine MRP output, order execution, and a warehouse handoff in one flow.
Who Should Pursue It and Who Hires for It
The natural audience is anyone who implements or supports manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA: functional consultants, solution architects with a production-planning remit, and internal SAP application owners at manufacturers. Because the certification applies to both Cloud Private Edition and on-premise S/4HANA, it is relevant across the range of manufacturers who run SAP in either deployment model.
Employers who value this credential tend to be the ones with something to plan and produce: discrete manufacturers, process-industry companies, and the consulting and implementation partners that serve them. The certification is a recognizable signal that you understand the planning-to-execution chain rather than only one slice of it. For a discussion of roles, see C_TS422_2601 Jobs, and for the financial angle see the C_TS422_2601 Salary Guide and the ROI analysis. No salary figures are cited here because none were verified for this specific credential.
Registration, Fees, and What Is Not Verified
Honesty about gaps matters here. For this certification, no official current question count, public pass rate, or member and non-member fee was verified. That means any article, forum post, or vendor page quoting a precise fee or pass rate for C_TS422_2601 should be checked against SAP's own certification information before you rely on it.
You can also review C_TS422_2601 Requirements to understand prerequisites and how to qualify. Remember that the exam is available in English, which is worth noting if you are choosing between exam language options for other SAP credentials.
Sequencing Your Preparation by Domain
Rather than a generic schedule, sequence your work around how the manufacturing process itself flows, because the domains build on one another. Master data comes first because planning and orders both depend on it; planning comes before execution because orders originate from planning results.
Master Data and Configuration
- Review manufacturing master data and the Customizing that governs it
- Study the difference between routings and master recipes
MRP in Depth
- Work through MRP Live, planning strategies, pMRP, and DDMRP
- Connect capacity evaluation to material planning results
Plan to Produce and Production Orders
- Trace a requirement from planned order to confirmed, received production order
- Study PP/DS, detailed scheduling, and optimization
Process Industry, Reporting, and Integration
- Cover process orders and process-industry specifics
- Review reporting tools and the EWM and supply chain handoffs
- Close with timed practice at the practice test site
Weeks two and three deliberately take the most time because MRP, Plan to Produce, and Production Orders carry the heaviest preparation weight. For a fuller plan, see the C_TS422_2601 Study Guide, and for a quick final review, the cheat sheet.
Clearing Up the Acronym Confusion
Searching for "C_TS422_2601" can surface material that is not about SAP manufacturing, because certification codes are sometimes reused or loosely quoted across the web. For this site, the code refers only to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Production Planning and Manufacturing certification described here. If a page quotes a fee, domain weighting, or pass rate that you cannot trace to SAP, treat it with suspicion.
If you want additional framing on the terminology, these pages explain the code from different angles: C_TS422_2601 Meaning, What Is C_TS422_2601 Certification?, and the C_TS422_2601 Certification overview. When you are ready to move from reading to practice, see C_TS422_2601 Training.
Frequently Asked Questions
It certifies knowledge of production planning and manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, covering master data, MRP, planning strategies, production and process orders, and related integration. It also applies to SAP S/4HANA on-premise.
SAP shows a 3-hour duration and a 64% pass score. The format is a 1-activity System Based Assessment, and the exam is available in English.
No. SAP's certification page does not display a complete official weighted domain table. The percentages are preparation-scope data for planning your study time, not a published SAP blueprint.
No official member or non-member fee and no public pass rate were verified for this certification. Check SAP's certification pages directly for current pricing and eligibility.
Plan to Produce processes, Production Orders, and MRP each carry 20% of the preparation scope, so they deserve the largest share. Cover MRP Live, pMRP, DDMRP, PP/DS, and the full production order lifecycle thoroughly.