C_ARSUM Ariba Supplier Management Practice Question
A buying organization maintains a modular questionnaire for supplier registration. A category manager complains that suppliers can skip the 'Quality Certifications' section even though the business requires an ISO 9001 certificate for all suppliers in the 'Manufacturing' commodity. The template designer wants to force the section to appear and be mandatory only when the supplier selects the 'Manufacturing' commodity during registration. Which configuration should the designer apply?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that any question added to a template is automatically mandatory for all suppliers, when conditional visibility rules are what actually control whether a section is shown and enforced.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Create a conditional section with a visibility rule that evaluates the selected commodity, and mark the ISO 9001 question as required inside that section.
Conditional sections evaluate answers already captured in the registration form and control whether subsequent questions appear at all. By tying the section's visibility rule to the commodity selection and flagging the certificate question as required, the organization enforces ISO 9001 only for Manufacturing suppliers. This keeps the form short for everyone else while guaranteeing the required evidence is collected before submission.
Answer analysis
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- ✓
Create a conditional section with a visibility rule that evaluates the selected commodity, and mark the ISO 9001 question as required inside that section.
Why this is correct
Conditional sections in SAP Ariba Supplier Management let you show or hide questions based on earlier answers, such as the commodity chosen. Combined with a required flag on the certificate question, suppliers in the Manufacturing commodity must complete it, while other suppliers never see it, keeping the registration form relevant and compliant.
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Configure a supplier qualification template with a mandatory 'ISO 9001' question and assign it to the Manufacturing commodity, then rely on the supplier to open the qualification project.
Why it's wrong here
A qualification template is a separate process from registration and typically starts only after the supplier record exists. It does not force the certificate question to appear during the registration flow, and it depends on someone initiating the qualification project, so it fails to satisfy the requirement that the section appear conditionally at registration time.
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Add the ISO 9001 question to the internal questionnaire and set the registration template to 'Requires Approval' so an approver verifies the certificate manually.
Why it's wrong here
The internal questionnaire is used by the buying organization's own users, not by suppliers during registration, so suppliers would never be prompted for the certificate. Relying on an approval task only catches the gap after submission and does not enforce the requirement at data entry, which the scenario explicitly asks for.
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Create a custom field on the supplier profile named 'ISO 9001' and set the field-level permission to 'Editable by supplier' so suppliers can enter the certificate number whenever they choose.
Why it's wrong here
A custom profile field gives suppliers an optional place to store a certificate number but provides no mechanism to make it mandatory or to display it only for the Manufacturing commodity. The requirement is conditional visibility and enforcement during registration, which a simple profile field cannot deliver, so suppliers could still skip the certification entirely.
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