C_ARSUM Ariba Supplier Management Practice Question

Answer analysis

Option-by-option breakdown

For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

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  Supplier Performance Management scorecard

  Why it's wrong here

  The performance scorecard reports on KPIs for suppliers already under performance management. It does not filter by lifecycle state or commodity to produce a registration-status list. The analyst needs a master-data query, and the scorecard addresses performance measurement instead, making it the wrong tool for this retrieval task.

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  Supplier Search with lifecycle state and commodity filters

  Why this is correct

  Supplier Search in SAP Ariba Supplier Management supports filtering by lifecycle state and commodity, allowing the analyst to retrieve exactly the suppliers that are Registered and in the IT Hardware commodity. This is the standard, purpose-built way to query the supplier master data and produces the requested list directly without exporting or manual sorting.

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  Supplier registration questionnaire template

  Why it's wrong here

  A registration questionnaire template defines the questions suppliers answer during onboarding. It holds no supplier records and cannot list suppliers by state or commodity. The analyst needs to query existing supplier data, not inspect the template that collected it, so this option does not fulfill the requirement.

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  Supplier 360 profile page

  Why it's wrong here

  The Supplier 360 profile page displays comprehensive information for one supplier at a time. It is not a list-building or filtering tool, so it cannot return all suppliers matching a lifecycle state and commodity. Using it would require opening each supplier individually, which is impractical for the analyst's need to retrieve a filtered list across the supplier base.