SAP S/4HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing (C_TS422) Practice Exam
Prepare for the SAP Certified Associate – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing exam across all eleven published areas — advanced planning with PP/DS, master data, production and process orders, demand management, lean manufacturing, capacity planning, and clean core — with objective-mapped questions and a full timed Exam mode.
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SAP announced in 2026 that C_TS422 has been redesigned as a more applied, role-aligned certification: built around how work actually happens, emphasizing applied competence in realistic planning and manufacturing contexts rather than recall. It keeps the trusted content but changes how competence is measured. Preparation built on definitions will not transfer cleanly — the reasoning has to be about dependencies and end-to-end execution.
Check the weighting before you plan your study. The three largest areas are Advanced Planning (PP/DS), Master Data, and Production Orders at 11–20% each. Material Requirements Planning is 10% or less — a smaller area than most material implies. Confirm the current outline on the official certification page before scheduling.
SAP S/4HANA PP and Manufacturing exam at a glance
- Vendor
- SAP
- Exam code
- C_TS422 — SAP versions this exam by release; confirm the current suffix before booking
- Certification
- SAP Certified Associate – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Production Planning and Manufacturing
- Level
- Associate (consultant profile in production planning and manufacturing)
- Scope
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise
- Format note
- SAP redesigned this certification in 2026 as a more applied, role-aligned assessment emphasizing practical capability over recall
- Blueprint
- Eleven weighted areas; Advanced Planning, Master Data, and Production Orders at 11–20% each, the remaining eight at 10% or less
- Format
- 80 questions; multiple-choice and multiple-select
- Duration
- 180 minutes (3 hours)
- Cut score
- 68%
- Language
- English
- Reference training
- SAP’s Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition learning journey; the TS421 and TS422 course pair is the classic academy path
Sources: SAP Learning — official certification page · SAP Learning — Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. SAP reserves the right to update exam content, items, and weighting at any time; confirm current details before scheduling.
About the SAP S/4HANA PP and Manufacturing (C_TS422) certification
This credential verifies the core skills in production planning and manufacturing required for the consultant profile, and SAP states it is relevant for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise. It sits at the end of the classic TS421/TS422 academy path — two courses covering the major planning and manufacturing functions and their configuration.
Two things should reshape how you prepare. First, SAP reimagined this certification in 2026: the announced redesign is a more applied, role-aligned assessment built around how work actually happens, emphasizing sound decision-making, understanding dependencies, and executing processes end to end. Second, the weighting is not where most material puts it. MRP is the topic every PP course leads with — and it is one of the smaller areas at 10% or less. The three biggest are Advanced Planning (embedded PP/DS), Master Data, and Production Orders. A candidate who over-invests in MRP mechanics and skips PP/DS has their preparation weighted almost backwards. For where this sits among S/4HANA tracks, see the IT certifications guide in our Learning Hub.
SAP S/4HANA PP and Manufacturing exam topic areas and weights
SAP publishes eleven weighted areas. Three at 11–20%, eight at 10% or less — but the eight small ones together carry the majority, so none is safe to skip. SAP reserves the right to update content, items, and weighting at any time.
Embedded PP/DS: the master data it requires, the product view and alert monitor, detailed scheduling and heuristics, and planning examples across make-to-order and make-to-stock production.
The foundation everything reads from: bills of material, routings and their operations, work centres and their capacities, production versions, and the material master views that drive planning behaviour.
Discrete manufacturing end to end: order creation and release, availability and scheduling, material staging, confirmations, goods receipt, and settlement — plus the status network that governs what the order will let you do.
MRP types and lot-sizing procedures, the planning run and its outputs, MRP Live, and the MRP areas and evaluation apps — a smaller area than the attention it usually receives.
Planned independent requirements, planning strategies, and consumption modes — how forecast and actual demand meet, and what a strategy group actually changes about the planning result.
Process manufacturing’s own object model: master recipes rather than routings, resources rather than work centres, control recipes and process messages — the parallel world to discrete production orders.
Kanban and its control cycles, replenishment strategies, and the pull-based approach that dispenses with order-by-order planning for suitable materials.
Capacity evaluation — comparing requirements against available capacity — versus capacity levelling, which does something about it; plus the planning table and the finite scheduling question.
Extend through released, upgrade-stable mechanisms rather than modifying standard behaviour, so a heavily configured manufacturing implementation survives the next release.
The PP component in context: the manufacturing types it supports, the Fiori apps a planner works in, and how planning connects to procurement, sales, and costing.
Where PP sits in the wider planning landscape, including how embedded planning relates to SAP IBP and what each is for.
Topic areas and weight bands reflect SAP’s published outline for this exam version. SAP reserves the right to update exam content, items, and weighting at any time, and has announced a redesign of this certification’s format. Source: SAP Learning — official certification page. Confirm the current outline before scheduling.
Who this exam is for
SAP aims this credential at consultants configuring manufacturing rather than running it:
- SAP PP consultants configuring master data, MRP, and production orders on real projects.
- Entry-level manufacturing consultants coming through the TS421/TS422 academy path, for whom this is the intended credential.
- Planners and production managers who own the process and now own the system that runs it.
- Consultants from MM, SD or QM extending into manufacturing, where the integration seams and costing links matter.
Professionals holding this certification commonly work as SAP PP consultants, manufacturing systems analysts, production planning specialists, and S/4HANA supply chain functional consultants. Adjacent credentials cover the neighbouring modules: S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement for the components MRP plans to buy, S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management for the warehouse that stages them, S/4HANA Asset Management for the plant maintenance that keeps the line running, and S/4HANA Management Accounting for where your production variances settle. For the roles this certification supports, see the business analyst career path.
What this PP and Manufacturing practice exam delivers
Learn mode
Get the correct answer, the explanation, and why each other choice is wrong — immediately after each question. Best for manufacturing-type and PP/DS questions, where the design reasoning is the answer.
Exam mode
80 questions, 180-minute timer — the real C_TS422 shape at a 68% cut score. Since SAP has made the exam more applied, treat practice as concept rehearsal rather than recall drilling.
Weighted to the real blueprint
Practice concentrated on advanced planning, master data, and production orders — with genuine coverage of process orders, Kanban, and demand management.
Score by topic area
Results break down across all eleven published areas, so practice tells you exactly which to revisit before you book.
Sample PP and Manufacturing practice questions
Ten free questions across the eleven published topic areas, weighted toward the largest, with full explanations and source links to SAP resources. The complete bank is available with the 24-hour trial.
A material can be produced on two different lines, each with its own BOM and routing. What links a specific BOM-and-routing combination for planning and execution?
- The MRP type in the material master
- The production version, which ties a BOM alternative to a routing for a validity period and quantity range
- The planning strategy group
- The work centre’s capacity category
Show answer & explanation
Correct: B — The production version. It is the named pairing — this BOM with this routing, valid for this period and quantity range — which is what lets one material have genuinely different ways of being made.
Why not the others: the MRP type (A) controls how planning is triggered rather than which recipe is used; the strategy group (C) governs demand handling; and the capacity category (D) describes a work centre’s capacity, not the material’s production path.
Source: SAP Learning — Business processes in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning → Further reading: PowerKram — S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management →A planner using embedded PP/DS needs to see all receipts and requirements for one product at one location, and act on shortages. Which tool applies?
- The capacity levelling function, which redistributes load
- The MRP Live run, which regenerates the plan
- The stock/requirements list in classic MRP
- The product view, PP/DS’s central screen for a product at a location, with the alert monitor surfacing the problems
Show answer & explanation
Correct: D — The product view, with the alert monitor. It is PP/DS’s working screen: everything for one product at one location in one place, with alerts telling the planner where to look first.
Why not the others: capacity levelling (A) addresses resource load rather than a product’s supply picture; MRP Live (B) is the classic planning run; and the classic stock/requirements list (C) is the pre-PP/DS equivalent the question is distinguishing from.
Source: SAP Learning — Advanced production planning with PP/DS → Further reading: PowerKram — SAP IBP for Supply Chain →A line consumes a standard component continuously, and the business wants replenishment triggered by actual consumption rather than by planned orders. What applies?
- Kanban with control cycles, where an empty container signals replenishment
- An MRP run scheduled more frequently
- A production order per container
- A planned independent requirement per shift
Show answer & explanation
Correct: A — Kanban with control cycles. Pull rather than push: consumption itself is the signal, so no one plans each replenishment — which is exactly what “triggered by actual consumption” asks for.
Why not the others: more frequent MRP (B) is still push planning, just faster; a production order per container (C) adds the paperwork Kanban removes; and planned independent requirements (D) are forecast demand rather than a consumption trigger.
Source: SAP Learning — Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition →A chemical plant runs process manufacturing. Which master data object replaces the routing used in discrete production?
- The production version
- The bill of material
- The master recipe, which describes the process steps against resources
- The rate routing
Show answer & explanation
Correct: C — The master recipe. Process manufacturing has its own object model — recipes against resources rather than routings against work centres — which is why SAP gives process orders a separate published area.
Why not the others: the production version (A) links BOM and recipe rather than replacing either; the BOM (B) lists components in both worlds; and the rate routing (D) belongs to repetitive manufacturing.
Source: SAP — Manufacturing → Further reading: PowerKram — S/4HANA Asset Management →A make-to-stock material is planned from a forecast, and sales orders arrive against it. What prevents the forecast and the sales orders being planned twice?
- The lot-sizing procedure, which groups requirements
- Consumption of planned independent requirements by incoming sales orders, governed by the consumption mode and periods
- Capacity levelling, which smooths the load
- The MRP type, which decides whether the material is planned at all
Show answer & explanation
Correct: B — Consumption of planned independent requirements, per the consumption mode. The forecast is a placeholder for demand that has not arrived yet; when a real order lands, it consumes that placeholder rather than adding to it.
Why not the others: lot sizing (A) decides order quantities once requirements are known; capacity levelling (C) addresses resource load; and the MRP type (D) governs the planning procedure rather than the forecast-to-order relationship.
Source: SAP Learning — Business processes in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning →A work centre shows requirements exceeding available capacity in week 12. What is the difference between capacity evaluation and capacity levelling here?
- Evaluation reveals the overload; levelling redistributes or reschedules the work to resolve it
- They are two names for the same function
- Evaluation reschedules orders; levelling only reports
- Neither addresses overloads — capacity is treated as infinite
Show answer & explanation
Correct: A — Evaluation reveals, levelling resolves. Seeing the problem and doing something about it are deliberately separate steps, which is why the planning table lets you inspect before you commit to a change.
Why not the others: calling them identical (B) collapses the distinction the question tests; swapping their roles (C) inverts it; and treating capacity as infinite (D) describes a planning setting, not the absence of the functions.
Source: SAP Learning — Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition → Further reading: PowerKram — S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement →A plant produces a high-volume standard product on a dedicated line with no need to track individual lots. Which manufacturing type fits?
- Process manufacturing with master recipes
- Repetitive manufacturing, planning on production versions with backflush confirmation
- Discrete manufacturing with a production order per lot
- Kanban with control cycles
Show answer & explanation
Correct: B — Repetitive manufacturing with backflush. No lot to track means no order to manage: planning runs on the production version and backflush posts consumption automatically as output is confirmed.
Why not the others: process manufacturing (A) suits recipe-driven continuous processes; discrete production orders (C) impose the per-lot overhead the requirement rules out; and Kanban (D) is a replenishment mechanism rather than a manufacturing type.
Source: SAP Learning — Business processes in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning →Clean core is a published area on this exam. What does it mean for a manufacturing implementation?
- Archiving completed production orders to keep the database small
- Running MRP less frequently to reduce system load
- Extending through released, upgrade-stable mechanisms and standard integration, so the implementation survives the next release
- Modifying standard transactions so they match the plant’s existing shop papers
Show answer & explanation
Correct: C — Extend through released, upgrade-stable mechanisms. PP is heavily configured and heavily tempting to modify, which is exactly why SAP publishes clean core as an area here — a modified manufacturing core fights every upgrade.
Why not the others: archiving orders (A) and MRP frequency (B) are housekeeping and performance concerns; and modifying standard transactions (D) is the anti-pattern clean core exists to prevent.
Source: SAP Learning — Managing Clean Core → Further reading: PowerKram — S/4HANA Management Accounting →MRP has run and created planned orders for an in-house produced material. What must happen before manufacturing can begin?
- Nothing — planned orders are executable on the shop floor
- The planned order must be settled to a cost object
- The planned order must be confirmed by the operator
- The planned order must be converted into a production order, which is then released
Show answer & explanation
Correct: D — Convert to a production order, then release. A planned order is a proposal the planner can still change; conversion is the commitment, and release is what makes it executable.
Why not the others: treating planned orders as executable (A) erases the distinction between proposal and commitment; settlement (B) happens at the end of the order’s life; and confirmation (C) records work that has been done.
Source: SAP Learning — Business processes in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning →When would a project use embedded PP/DS rather than classic MRP alone?
- Never — PP/DS was replaced by MRP Live
- Only for materials that are purchased rather than produced
- When planning needs finite scheduling of constrained resources and detailed sequencing, beyond what classic MRP determines
- Whenever the plant has more than one work centre
Show answer & explanation
Correct: C — When finite scheduling and detailed sequencing are needed. Classic MRP answers what and how much; PP/DS answers when and in what order on a constrained resource. Selecting materials into PP/DS is a deliberate design decision, not a default.
Why not the others: claiming replacement by MRP Live (A) misreads two complementary tools; purchased materials (B) are not what detailed scheduling is for; and a work-centre count (D) is not the criterion.
Source: SAP Learning — Advanced production planning with PP/DS →Keep going: Learning & Career resources
Production planning sits between demand and the shop floor — and it opens onto functional consultant and architect roles. Two PowerKram hubs back this exam.
Deep dive: the reimagined exam, PP/DS, and study path
SAP reimagined this certification
In 2026 SAP announced a redesigned C_TS422: a more applied, role-aligned certification built around how work actually happens, emphasizing applied competence in realistic planning and manufacturing contexts and validating practical capability rather than recall. SAP’s own framing is that it showcases “sound decision-making, understanding dependencies, and executing processes end to end.” The trusted content stays; the way competence is measured changes. Practically: rehearse why a configuration produces a behaviour and what depends on what, rather than memorizing definitions. Practice questions still earn their place — the reasoning transfers — but take the current format from SAP’s page. SAP’s official certification page →
MRP is not the biggest area — PP/DS is
This is the most useful weighting fact on the page. Every PP course leads with MRP, and MRP is 10% or less of this exam. The 11–20% areas are Advanced Planning, Master Data, and Production Orders. Advanced Planning means embedded PP/DS, and it is the area most candidates under-prepare: the master data PP/DS requires, the product view as its central screen, the alert monitor for surfacing problems, heuristics and detailed scheduling, and planning examples across make-to-order and make-to-stock. If your PP experience predates embedded PP/DS or your project never switched it on, start there. SAP Learning — Advanced production planning with PP/DS →
Know the manufacturing types by what they eliminate
Discrete, repetitive, and process manufacturing each get their own treatment, and scenario questions hand you a plant and expect the type to follow. Discrete uses a production order per lot — full traceability, full overhead. Repetitive drops the per-lot order: planning runs on the production version and backflush posts consumption as output is confirmed, which suits high-volume standard product on a dedicated line. Process has its own object model entirely: master recipes rather than routings, resources rather than work centres, control recipes and process messages. Read the scenario for whether there is a lot worth tracking. SAP Learning — Business processes in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning →
The eight small areas add up
Three areas at 11–20% leaves the majority spread across eight at 10% or less: MRP, demand management, capacity planning, lean manufacturing, process orders, clean core, and the two introductions. Individually skippable; collectively decisive. Demand management is worth singling out because it turns on one idea — consumption: planned independent requirements are placeholders for demand that has not arrived, and incoming sales orders consume rather than add to them, governed by the consumption mode and periods. Get that and the make-to-stock planning questions resolve. SAP Learning — Implementing Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition →
Realistic study path
80 questions in 180 minutes at a 68% cut score means about 55 correct, with just over two minutes a question. The classic path is the TS421 and TS422 course pair — designed for entry-level PP consultants pursuing exactly this credential — alongside SAP’s Implementing Manufacturing journey. Work those, then deliberately cover PP/DS and the small areas your project work probably skipped. Two practical notes: check the edition, since this covers S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and on-premise while SAP runs separate public-cloud manufacturing credentials; and check the format, because SAP has redesigned how this exam measures competence. S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management on PowerKram →
Frequently asked questions
What are the exam topic areas and their weights?
Eleven areas. Three at 11–20%: Advanced Planning, Master Data, and Production Orders. Eight at 10% or less: introductions to supply chain planning and production planning, demand management, capacity planning, lean manufacturing, material requirements planning, process orders, and managing clean core. Note that MRP — which most study material leads with — is one of the smaller areas.
How many questions is the exam, and what is the cut score?
80 multiple-choice and multiple-select questions in 180 minutes with a 68% cut score, in English — about 55 correct out of 80. SAP versions this exam by release and has announced a redesign of its format, so confirm the current code and details on SAP’s certification page before booking.
Has the exam format changed?
Yes. SAP announced in 2026 that C_TS422 has been reimagined as a more applied, role-aligned certification: built around how work actually happens, emphasizing applied competence in realistic planning and manufacturing contexts, and validating practical capability rather than recall. The content is largely trusted material; what changed is how competence is measured.
Which S/4HANA edition does this cover?
SAP states the certification remains relevant for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise. SAP runs separate credentials for public-cloud manufacturing, so check that any study material targets the same edition.
When do you use PP/DS rather than classic MRP?
PP/DS adds finite scheduling of constrained resources and detailed sequencing — the “when and in what order” that classic MRP does not determine. MRP answers what to make and how much; PP/DS schedules it against real capacity constraints. Selecting materials into PP/DS is a deliberate design decision rather than a default, and Advanced Planning is one of the exam’s three largest areas at 11–20%.
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