Sourced information technology context
Software, data processing, and business support: Dynamics 365 Business Central
Charlotte's city-hosted Target Cluster Opportunity Analysis defines information technology to include software publishing, data processing and hosting, computer systems design, office administration, and business support services. Translate the business setting into companies, dimensions, posting groups, workflows, and operational records. Ask the consultant to show the accounting result of each choice. A technology role may support a product, hosting operation, client delivery team, or internal business function, each with different data rights and production duties.
Evidence to request: Use a transaction scenario and require company, dimension, posting, approval, inventory, and reporting decisions. Define the customer, service boundary, data handled, deployment authority, support target, commercial obligation, and acceptance measure.
Sourced logistics and distribution context
Freight, warehouse, and transport records: Dynamics 365 Business Central
The Charlotte analysis defines logistics and distribution across air, road, rail, freight arrangement, delivery, and warehousing activities. Set the extension and integration strategy. Require evidence from APIs, events, AL extensions, upgrades, monitoring, and the boundary with Power Platform or external products. Distribution systems must align orders, inventory, capacity, carriers, locations, status events, exceptions, and billing while physical goods remain in motion.
Evidence to request: Review an extension or integration with upgrade safety, failure handling, authentication, monitoring, and operational support. Map the order or shipment lifecycle, transport modes, warehouse handoffs, partner messages, peak volumes, exception queue, reconciliation, and after-hours ownership.
Sourced headquarters and enterprise operations context
Shared services across business units: Dynamics 365 Business Central
A 2026 City of Charlotte economic-development update reports that nineteen Fortune 1000 companies have headquarters in the region and describes an ecosystem of executive leadership, professional services, and global connections. Define migration, testing, cutover, and support ownership. Candidates should explain opening balances, master data, open transactions, permissions, jobs, exceptions, and reconciliation. Headquarters systems can span legal entities, business units, shared services, acquisitions, approval chains, reporting calendars, and identity rules under several process owners.
Evidence to request: Ask for a cutover cycle the consultant owned, including migration order, reconciliation, permissions, exceptions, and sign-off. Set the entities and functions in scope, system authorities, consolidation rules, approval design, reporting deadlines, integration boundaries, and cutover decision maker.