The certification "SAP Certified Application Associate - Production Planning & Manufacturing with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7" verifies the knowledge in the area of Production for the consultant profile. This certificate proves that the candidate has a basic understanding within this consultant profile and can implement this knowledge practically in projects. The SAP Certified Application Associate can contribute to the success of the planning and implementation phases of the project in a mentored role and would typically have a maximum of three years’ experience in the solution area. Project experience should not be prerequisite for a competent and well trained candidate to pass this exam.

Production Planning and Manufacturing (SAP ECC or S4 HANA) is the process of aligning demand with manufacturing capacity to create production and procurement schedules for finished products and component materials

SAP PP tracks and makes a record of the manufacturing process flows, for example, the planned and actual costs. Also, goods movements from the conversion of raw material to semi-finished goods.

The primary business objective of Production Planning and Manufacturing is to ensure the maximum productivity by utilizing optimum available resources.

It is the backbone of logistics that integrates with other modules such as Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Quality Management, Plant Maintenance and Financial Controlling etc.

Some of the sub-components of SAP Plant Maintenance / Enterprise Asset management are

• Master data
• Production Planning
• Demand Management
• Material Requirement Planning
• Capacity Planning
• Production Order Processing