Sourced information technology context
Software, data processing, and business support: Dynamics 365 CRM
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 operating setting into accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, work orders, assets, and activities. Require a reason for each custom table or process variation. 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 process-design case and require table, form, automation, security, reporting, and ownership 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 CRM
The Charlotte analysis defines logistics and distribution across air, road, rail, freight arrangement, delivery, and warehousing activities. Define the Dataverse, Power Platform, ERP, identity, and external-service boundaries. Candidates should cover APIs, events, virtual tables, security, retries, and monitoring. 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 ERP or external integration with source-of-truth rules, matching, failure handling, replay, and reconciliation. 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 CRM
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. Set migration and release ownership. Ask how the consultant profiles source data, controls duplicates, tests roles and automation, sequences cutover, and supports users afterward. 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 migration or release the consultant owned, including data quality, role testing, defects, training handoff, and acceptance. Set the entities and functions in scope, system authorities, consolidation rules, approval design, reporting deadlines, integration boundaries, and cutover decision maker.