Sourced life sciences and health care context
Research, care, and regulated records: Oracle EBS
Durham's FY 2025 Strategic Plan Impact Report identifies life sciences and health care as high-demand industries used to align workforce programs and employer engagement. Translate the operating setting into operating units, ledgers, inventory organizations, responsibilities, workflows, and module setup. Ask the consultant to explain how the design affects transactions and accounting. Life-sciences and care platforms may join research samples, clinical records, laboratory instruments, trials, patient access, quality events, validation, and regulated retention.
Evidence to request: Use a cross-module process case and require organization, configuration, responsibility, workflow, interface, and accounting decisions. Define the research or care workflow, sample or patient identity, protected fields, instrument or clinical interface, validation evidence, quality gate, retention rule, and approval owner.
Sourced information technology context
Product, data, and service boundaries: Oracle EBS
The Durham report also identifies information technology as a high-demand industry in the city's workforce and business-support work. Define ownership for interfaces, conversions, reports, extensions, workflows, APIs, and database objects. Require evidence from a comparable custom object with support and upgrade consequences. Information-technology roles can sit in product engineering, enterprise applications, data platforms, security, managed services, or public systems with different delivery evidence.
Evidence to request: Review a RICE object or production defect with code or setup, logs, data impact, correction, testing, and deployment control. State the product or service boundary, users, data ownership, production authority, integration surface, reliability target, release evidence, and after-launch responsibility.
Sourced advanced manufacturing context
Production, quality, and supply flow: Oracle EBS
Advanced manufacturing is another high-demand industry named in Durham's FY 2025 impact report and related workforce alignment activity. Set patching, testing, cutover, incident, and migration duties. Candidates should cover dependencies, clones, concurrent jobs, open transactions, reconciliations, fallback, and transfer to support. Advanced production can connect designs, bills of material, suppliers, equipment, work orders, quality results, serial or lot records, inventory, maintenance, and cost.
Evidence to request: Ask for an EBS upgrade, patch, or migration cycle the consultant owned, including prerequisites, downtime, validation, exceptions, and recovery. Trace the product from released design and sourced material through equipment, production, inspection, traceability, inventory, shipment, variance, and accountable process owner.