The "SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing" certification exam validates that the candidate possesses the fundamental and core knowledge required of the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing consultant profile. This certification proves that the candidate has an overall understanding and in‐depth technical skills to participate as a member of a project team in a mentored role.

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