Plan a factory's production with SAP PP, from a customer's demand to the panel in stock.
A simulation where you plan production at the Valencia plant of Glass+ Iberia, a fictional company, from a panel's material master to the panel in stock. It is a simulator we designed, in your browser: this is not a real SAP. You do 32 hands-on tasks on screen, with reference sheets alongside.
Know, do, prove.
All three play out in one factory, Valencia, from the panel's material master to the finished production order.
Understand the module
You learn each concept at the moment a step needs it. 42 reference sheets, organized in 7 chapters, and 16 diagrams of our own are at your disposal, from the material master (a product's identity in SAP) to the costs of the production order.
Do the job
32 hands-on tasks (things to do on screen) in the simulated system, on the Valencia plant. For example, you try to issue the glass from the warehouse to make a large-format panel, then to release the order: the system refuses. You look for what the plant is missing, rerun the check, and only then release. You run into this block here, in practice, rather than for the first time at a client.
Practice for the certification
The specialization covers the topics of the official syllabus of the SAP C_TS422 certification (production and manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA): each topic has its own sheet, and most are practiced in the simulator, on Glass+'s products and line. A final episode reviews 8 notions before the practical exam.
You may have heard of the MRP run. You cannot say why the system proposes a given order.
The MRP run (Material Requirements Planning) is the SAP calculation that compares what customers are going to buy with what the plant has in stock, then proposes what to make or buy, and when. One day, Carmen asks you what the plant must produce and whether the line can keep up. Nobody knows which data the calculation reads, or what to check before launching production. You may have already seen a bill of material or a production order, but that does not teach you how to chain the steps, or how to read what the system answers.
A bill of material and a routing that do not talk to each other
The bill of material is the list of a product's components. The routing is the sequence of operations (here cutting, then assembly) and the work center where each one is done. They are two separate objects in SAP. The production version is what links them: you create it in the simulation, so the order knows which list of components and which sequence of operations to follow.
A forecast that the order comes to consume
You enter what customers are expected to buy: that is the forecast. Then a real order arrives. It does not add to the forecast, it consumes it. If you do not understand this rule, you wrongly add the forecast and the order together, and the MRP run proposes to make too much.
A calculation that proposes orders you cannot read
The MRP run answers with planned orders (manufacturing proposals, not yet production orders) and sometimes with an exception: a message that flags a problem, here on the gasket, one of the components. For panels made to stock, the calculation starts from the forecasts. For the large-format panel, made to order, it starts from the customer's order, and you find the planned order under that sales order.
A line too small for everything the calculation proposes
The MRP run does not check whether the cutting line has the time to do everything. The capacity step tells you: you read the cutting load (what the orders ask of that work center), you bring the standard panel order forward, you check that the line copes, then you write a capacity decision note.
An order that refuses to go to the shop floor
You converted the large-format panel's planned order into a production order. You try to issue the glass: the system refuses. You try to release the order, meaning to authorize it to start: it refuses too. You have to look for the plant's missing parts, rerun the availability check (the check that verifies everything is there), then release.
In a job interview, you only describe one piece of the chain
They ask you for a product's path, from forecast to order cost. You know the production order, but not what comes before or after it. Once you have run an order from start to finish yourself, you have a precise example to tell, and your mission portfolio sums it up.
The setting: a glass-panel factory that has to launch a large-format panel.
Glass+ is a company we made up, and everything takes place in a simulator. In Valencia, the cutting and assembly line makes Glass+ Iberia's glass panels. Carmen Ortega, the production planning manager, works with two products: the GP-PANEL, the standard panel, and the GP-PANEL-XL, the large-format panel. Her colleagues Lucía, Marta, Pau, Inés and Rafael appear along the episodes.
You start with the GP-PANEL's material master, then you create the XL, its master data and its routing. Next come the forecast, the MRP run, the line's capacity and the production order.
We do not explain PP. We have you do it.
Glass+ Iberia hands you its production planning. Each episode starts from a situation on the plant floor, the simulator checks what you do, and you write five deliverables along the way. A final episode reviews 8 notions before the certification's practical exam and delivers your mission portfolio.
I do not want one more spreadsheet. I want a note I can read in two minutes: what the plant has to make, for when, and whether the line can keep up.
Carmen sets the scene, you write the note she is waiting for
Carmen Ortega, production planning manager at Glass+ Iberia, is the guide in the story (a character, not a real tutor). Lucía, Marta, Pau, Inés and Rafael are her colleagues at the Valencia plant. You turn each request you receive directly into actions in the simulator, then into a deliverable.
Episode 6: a refusal you learn from
You have just converted the large-format panel's planned order into a production order. You try to issue the glass: the system refuses. You try to release the order: it refuses too. You look for the plant's missing parts, you rerun the availability check, and this time the order is released.
Episode 8: you leave with five deliverables, including your portfolio
Along the mission, you write your master data file for the XL, your planning note for Carmen, your capacity decision note and your process sheet: the order from start to finish. The last episode, "Review before the practical exam", reviews 8 notions and delivers your mission portfolio, with something to tell about what you can do in a job interview.
Six jobs you will have carried through to the end.
In the end, Carmen has a clear planning note and a decision on the line's capacity, and you have run a production order from start to finish. These results can be trusted because your master data and your entries are right.
Set up a product's master data
You will be able to read a panel's material master and bill of material, create the large-format panel and write its bill of material, create a work center, write a routing, then link the bill of material and the routing.
Enter a forecast and watch it get consumed
You will be able to enter a sales forecast, read the stock/requirements list (the screen that shows what comes in and what goes out for a product) and see a customer order consume the forecast.
Run the MRP and read it
You will be able to run the calculation on a product made to stock, then on a product made to order. You will read the planned orders, spot an exception and find the order under the sales order that triggered it.
Check the line's capacity
You will be able to read a work center's load, bring an order forward, check that the line copes, then defend your choice in a capacity decision note.
Send an order to the shop floor
You will be able to convert a planned order into a production order, understand why the system refuses to issue a part or release the order, look for the plant's missing parts, rerun the availability check and release.
Produce, confirm, deliver
You will be able to issue the glass against the order, confirm the cutting then the assembly, receive the panels into stock and set technical completion. Finally, you will read the order costs and find the month's orders.
Who it is for, and who it is not.
Carmen Ortega, a character in the story, guides you through the whole simulation. For each hands-on task, you have three hints if you get stuck (four for two of them). You can start from scratch: you do not need to know SAP. Having worked in a factory, or brushed against SAP, will mostly help in the first episodes.
This specialization is for you if…
- You want to understand what SAP expects between a customer's demand and the panel in stock: master data, the MRP run, capacity, the production order, the confirmation.
- You come from production, planning or logistics and want to see how SAP records what you already do on the shop floor.
- You are changing careers to become an SAP consultant and want to be able to describe a complete production cycle you carried out yourself.
- You are new to SAP PP on a project and have only seen one part of it (master data, or orders), and you want to see the whole chain from start to finish.
- You are aiming for the SAP C_TS422 certification and want to have practiced its main processes before the exam.
This specialization is not for you if…
- You are already a seasoned SAP PP consultant: these jobs are part of your daily work.
- You want a person to support you through your whole career change. For that, there is Beyond the Horizon (a complete path with follow-up), which includes one specialization of your choice.
- You are looking to practice process manufacturing, advanced planning (pMRP, DDMRP, PP/DS) or repetitive manufacturing: the simulation does not have you play them, they are only explained on a sheet.
- You would rather work on purchasing (SAP MM), sales (SAP SD), warehousing (SAP EWM), accounting (SAP FI), controlling (SAP CO), or maintenance (SAP PM): have a look at those specializations.
Eight episodes, from the panel's material master to the review.
The whole path takes place in one factory, Glass+ Iberia in Valencia. The first seven episodes go from the panel's material master to the finished production order. The eighth reviews 8 notions before the certification's practical exam and delivers your mission portfolio. Each episode picks up what the previous one left, and five deliverables mark the path.
The panel's material master
The plant makes the standard panel and now has to produce a large-format one. You start by reading how the GP-PANEL is described in SAP: its material master (the product's identity and planning data) and its bill of material. Then you create the GP-PANEL-XL and write its bill of material. The sheets in the "Master data" chapter explain each concept at the moment you need it.
The line and its routing
A product is made somewhere, in several operations. You read the cutting work center (the place in the plant where an operation is done, with its capacity and costs), you create the large-format assembly one, you write the XL's routing (the sequence of operations and their times), then you link the bill of material and the routing. First deliverable: your master data file for the XL.
What customers will buy
Before making anything, you need to know what customers will buy. You enter a forecast (an independent requirement: demand that does not come from another product), then you read the stock/requirements list, the screen that shows, for a product, what comes in and what goes out. Finally, you see a customer order come and consume the forecast.
Running the MRP: make-to-stock and make-to-order
You run the MRP on the panels, made to stock, and read the planned orders it proposes. An exception appears on the gasket, one of the components: you look for it and read what it tells you. Then you find the sales order in the list, run the calculation on the XL, made to order, and find the order under the sales order that triggered it. Deliverable: your planning note for Carmen.
Is the line big enough?
The MRP run does not check whether the line has the time to do everything. You read the cutting load (what the orders ask of that work center), you bring the standard panel order forward, then you check that the line copes. Deliverable: your capacity decision note.
The order goes to the shop floor
You convert the XL planned order into a production order (the record that launches the manufacturing of a batch). You try to issue the glass: the system refuses. You try to release the order, meaning to authorize it to start: it refuses too. So you look for the plant's missing parts, rerun the availability check (the check that verifies everything is there) and release.
Produce, confirm, deliver
The order is released: now you do what the shop floor does. You issue the float glass against the order, you confirm the cutting, then the assembly (the confirmation tells the system what has been done). You receive the panels into stock, set technical completion (the work is declared finished), then read the order costs. Finally, you find the month's orders in a list. Deliverable: your process sheet, the order from start to finish.
Review before the practical exam
This episode has no hands-on task: 10 steps to go over 8 notions before the certification's practical exam (taken with SAP). A sheet explains that exam and how to review for it. You finish with your mission portfolio: what you can do, with something to tell in a job interview.
Three things that set this apart from video courses.
Deliverables you write, as on the job
At five points of the mission, you write a deliverable the way you would for Carmen: a master data file, a planning note, a capacity decision note, a process sheet, then your mission portfolio. The 42 reference sheets and the 16 diagrams are at your disposal while you work.
A plant that moves forward with you
Each episode picks up what the previous one left, and nothing starts over from zero: the large-format panel you create at the beginning is the one whose production you confirm at the end. It all happens in your browser, on screens of our own creation.
Realistic traps
An exception on a component, a line that cannot carry the load, an order that refuses to go to the shop floor, missing parts. If you get stuck, you have three hints on each hands-on task (four for two of them).
Pierre signs the specialization.
Pierre Balbinot
Co-founder of Key User Training · SAP PP, EAM & MES consultant
Pierre trained as an engineer and works as a functional SAP consultant, certified in PP and EAM, with MES expertise. He is an SAP project manager at Vossloh, in the railway industry.
He has lived through several S/4HANA migrations on the client side: at Ceratizit on the maintenance side, then at Vossloh.
He signs this specialization with one idea in mind: "A junior consultant does not need to know everything. They need to know what to look for, where, and who to ask." The simulator screens are our own creation, designed so you find your bearings the day you open SAP.
What our learners say about Key User Training.
These reviews are about our training in general. This specialization is too new to have its own, but it is built the same way: concrete cases, played out in a simulator.
The simulation is what unlocked it for me
I tried courses on Udemy, explored the SAP Learning modules, and something was always missing to become a junior SAP consultant. The simulations and module configurations based on virtual companies are really what sets Key User Training apart. Every euro spent is truly worth it.
It is like you are on SAP
I already worked as an SAP user, so I did this course to refresh my knowledge. The interactive way of the course is the best; it is like you are on SAP. It is dynamic, with a base of an enterprise case, so it helps you understand and think in those terms. I will always recommend this course.
Structured, progressive, concrete
Key User trainings take you by the hand. They are structured, progressive and combine theory with practice through demonstrations based on concrete situations encountered every day in companies.
Tailor-made and a perfect fit
Key User Training is to SAP training what a good tailor is to the textile industry: hand-stitched, elegant, and for me it was tailor-made and fit like a glove.
A leap forward in my SAP practice
Already an SAP user across several modules for a few years, I found that the Key User Training team really helped me take a leap forward and genuinely moved my SAP practice ahead. The professionalism and availability of the trainers are their main strengths.
Five trainings, same clear structure
Five trainings already with Key User Training. It is really the same structure whatever the course: theory and practice through concrete situations. The big plus is the responsiveness, the trainers getting back to you on questions or difficulties.
Practice inspired by the hands-on format of the SAP C_TS422 certification
The SAP Production Planning and Manufacturing certification (exam code C_TS422) covers production in SAP S/4HANA: it is SAP's official certification that corresponds to PP. It is a 3-hour practical exam taken directly in an SAP system: you are asked to carry out tasks, not just pick the right answer.
The specialization covers the topics of this certification's official syllabus, inspired by the hands-on format of the exam (tasks to carry out in a system), with our own missions at Glass+ Iberia. These are the topics you play in the simulator:
- Master data: material, bill of material, work center, routing and production version
- Planning: forecast, make-to-stock or make-to-order, MRP run, stock/requirements list, exceptions
- Planned orders and their conversion into production orders
- Capacity: a work center's load and the decision
- Execution: availability check, release, component issues, confirmation, goods receipt
- Technical completion, order costs and order monitoring
By exam day, you will have run each of these processes from start to finish in our simulator, and you will have seen what happens when a step is missing. The exam itself takes place in a real SAP system, so its screens will not look exactly like our simulator's.
Three topics are explained on a sheet but not played in the simulator: process manufacturing (the process order and the master recipe), advanced planning (pMRP, DDMRP, PP/DS) and repetitive manufacturing. A final episode has you review 8 notions before the practical exam.
8 episodes, lifetime access, updates included.
Lifetime access, 14-day guarantee from purchase. You progress episode by episode, at your own pace, and come back whenever you want.
SAP PP Specialization
A complete SAP production planning and execution case in a simulated factory in Valencia, from the panel's material master to the finished production order.
Episode by episode, you plan production at Glass+ Iberia (a simulated factory): the large-format panel's master data, the forecast, the MRP run, the line's capacity, then the production order, from its release to its cost. It all runs in your browser, with nothing to install.
14-day money-back guarantee
If this specialization isn't right for you, just send us an email within 14 days of buying it. You get a full refund and you don't need to give a reason.
The questions we get before people start.
What is Glass+?
Glass+ is a fictional company we created for you: a glass group whose Spanish subsidiary, Glass+ Iberia, has its plant in Valencia. The cutting and assembly line makes glass panels there. It is the setting of the whole specialization, and everything takes place in a simulator. You need no other specialization and no prior knowledge of Glass+, because everything is inside the simulation.
Do I need to take another specialization first?
No. Each specialization stands on its own: the first episode starts from the panel's material master. If you took SAP MM (purchasing), EWM (warehouse), SD (sales), FI (accounting), CO (controlling) or PM (maintenance), you will recognize Valencia and the Glass+ group.
Do I need SAP access to take this specialization?
No. Everything happens inside the simulation, from your browser. No installation, no SAP system to set up on your side.
I am a beginner. Is it doable?
Yes. The simulation explains each concept when you need it, starting with the bill of material and the routing, and it guides you step by step. If you want to understand what PP is first, read our SAP PP guide. Knowing a factory, or SAP from a distance, makes progress more comfortable, but it is not required.
How long does it take?
The time depends on how comfortable you already are with SAP, so we do not give you one number. You work episode by episode at your own pace, and you can stop and pick up again whenever you want. Your access never expires.
What if I get stuck, with no coaching?
Each hands-on task offers three hints (four for two of them), and the 42 reference sheets stay available while you work. If you want a person to support you through a complete learning path, that is what Beyond the Horizon offers, with one specialization of your choice included.
How long do I have access?
Lifetime access to the specialization content, updates included. You can come back to it as often as you need. Access covers the learning content and the simulation, not an SAP system.
What will I actually do?
You go through 8 episodes of production at the Valencia plant: 7 mission episodes, plus a review episode. You work through 76 steps, including 32 hands-on tasks in the simulator, using 19 transactions (in SAP, a transaction is one screen for one task; here they are the simulator's screens, our own creation, designed so you find your bearings the day you open SAP), with 42 reference sheets and 16 diagrams to help you. By the end, you have written a large-format panel's master data, entered a forecast, run the MRP, checked the line's capacity, then run a production order from its release to its cost. You have written five deliverables, including your mission portfolio, which sums up what you can do, with something to tell in a job interview.
What does the simulation not cover?
It focuses on master data, the forecast, the MRP run, the line's capacity and the production order, from its creation to its costs, in a single plant, Valencia.
Three topics are explained on a sheet but not played in the simulator: process manufacturing (the process order and the master recipe), advanced planning (pMRP, DDMRP, PP/DS, planning methods more advanced than the basic calculation) and repetitive manufacturing.
To keep things clear, the simulator simplifies several aspects of a real project. The sheet "What this simulator simplifies", at the start of the Documentation, goes through them. We would rather tell you up front.
Which SAP version is this on?
The simulation reflects production planning and execution in SAP S/4HANA (SAP's current system). Our screens are our own creation, designed so you find your bearings the day you open SAP. The concepts you learn (bill of material, routing, MRP run, production order) stay the same from one version to the next.
Does this specialization prepare me for the SAP PP certification?
Yes, in part. It covers the topics of the official syllabus of the SAP Production Planning and Manufacturing certification (exam code C_TS422), the official name of the certification that corresponds to PP: each topic has its own sheet, and most are practiced in the simulator. It is inspired by the hands-on format of the exam (tasks to carry out), with our own missions at Glass+ Iberia, and a final review episode of 8 notions. The exam, a 3-hour practical test in a system, is taken directly with SAP, and we advise you to also study the situations it may test.
What if it is not right for me?
You have a 14-day money-back guarantee, counted from the day you buy. A simple email is enough, no justification required, and we refund you in full.
Can I get an invoice for my company?
Yes. Key User Training is a training company based in Luxembourg. After you pay, we issue an invoice in your company's name. If you need specific details on the invoice, contact us before you buy.
Valencia's plant is waiting for you.
For now, a product, a forecast and a cutting line are three separate subjects. Eight episodes from now, you will know how to link them, from the customer's demand to the panel in stock.