C_ARSUM Ariba Supplier Management Practice Question
A supplier manager is designing a supplier qualification process in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. The process must include a step where an internal quality team reviews the supplier's answers to a specific set of questions before the supplier can proceed to the next stage. Which configuration should the supplier manager use to ensure the quality team's review is required and gated?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is thinking that any review by the quality team, such as via a supplier group or modular questionnaire, will gate the qualification process, when only an internal review task with conditional approval rules does so.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
An internal review task with a conditional approval rule based on the supplier's answers
Internal review tasks within a qualification template are the correct mechanism to require a specific team's approval before advancing. By assigning the task to the quality team and adding a conditional approval rule tied to the supplier's answers, the process ensures the review is both mandatory and gated. Modular questionnaires, supplier groups, and sourcing projects do not provide this in-workflow, answer-dependent gating.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
A sourcing project with a pre-qualification gate for the quality team
Why it's wrong here
Sourcing projects are separate from supplier qualification and are used for bid events. A pre-qualification gate in sourcing would not integrate with the supplier's qualification process or use the supplier's questionnaire answers to gate progression. This approach misplaces the review outside the supplier lifecycle workflow and fails to meet the scenario's requirement.
- ✗
A supplier group that includes only suppliers approved by the quality team
Why it's wrong here
Supplier groups are static or rule-based collections used for organization and bulk actions. They do not insert a review task into the qualification workflow or gate progression based on that review. Adding a supplier to a group after approval does not enforce the required review step before the next stage, so this does not satisfy the gating requirement.
- ✗
A modular questionnaire sent after qualification is complete
Why it's wrong here
Modular questionnaires are for collecting additional information, not for gating progression within a qualification process. Sending one after qualification is complete would be too late to serve as a pre-approval review step. It also would not automatically block the supplier from advancing to the next stage based on the quality team's decision.
- ✓
An internal review task with a conditional approval rule based on the supplier's answers
Why this is correct
An internal review task in a qualification template can be assigned to the quality team and configured with conditional approval rules that evaluate the supplier's answers. This ensures the quality team must approve before the process advances. It directly meets the requirement for a gated, answer-dependent internal review step within the qualification workflow.
About these practice questions
One of 250 original C_ARSUM practice questions on Courseiva, each with a full explanation and wrong-answer analysis — not exam dumps or protected exam content. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written and reviewed by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official SAP exam blueprint
This C_ARSUM practice question is part of Courseiva's free SAP certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the C_ARSUM exam.