Sourced auto, mobility, and advanced manufacturing context
Vehicles, factories, and connected operations: Dynamics 365 CRM
Detroit's economic development budget report identifies auto and mobility together with advanced manufacturing as a priority sector. Its project examples span automotive components, fuel cells, clean-energy manufacturing, and vehicle software. Translate the operating setting into accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, work orders, assets, and activities. Require a reason for each custom table or process variation. Vehicle and factory work may connect engineering definitions, production schedules, equipment, parts, quality, suppliers, software releases, logistics, dealers, service, and finance records across long product lifecycles.
Evidence to request: Use a process-design case and require table, form, automation, security, reporting, and ownership decisions. Set the vehicle, component, plant, or mobility boundary, then trace engineering changes through production, quality, delivery, service, and accounting with system authorities and outage limits.
Sourced research, engineering, and design context
Requirements, models, prototypes, and releases: Dynamics 365 CRM
The same Detroit report names research, engineering, and design as a sector for focused business-attraction work. Define the Dataverse, Power Platform, ERP, identity, and external-service boundaries. Candidates should cover APIs, events, virtual tables, security, retries, and monitoring. Engineering delivery can cross requirements, models, simulations, prototypes, test results, parts, software, intellectual property, changes, and release records owned by separate product and manufacturing groups.
Evidence to request: Review an ERP or external integration with source-of-truth rules, matching, failure handling, replay, and reconciliation. Define the engineering artifact, authoring and release systems, configuration baseline, test evidence, change authority, supplier access, retention rule, and handoff into production.
Sourced clean energy and sustainability context
Energy assets, performance, and reporting: Dynamics 365 CRM
Detroit's current economic development focus also includes clean energy and sustainability, and the report lists energy technology and manufacturing among recent project examples. Set migration and release ownership. Ask how the consultant profiles source data, controls duplicates, tests roles and automation, sequences cutover, and supports users afterward. Energy work can join physical assets, meters, forecasts, maintenance, production, contracts, incentives, emissions measures, financial postings, and external reporting with different calculation owners.
Evidence to request: Ask for a migration or release the consultant owned, including data quality, role testing, defects, training handoff, and acceptance. Name the assets and energy process, source measurements, calculation method, reporting boundary, contract or incentive rules, maintenance window, reconciliation, and approval evidence.