Sourced artificial intelligence and software context
Models, products, and production services: Oracle Fusion SCM
The City of San Jose identifies artificial intelligence as a priority growth sector and includes AI training and job-matching programs in its fiscal year 2025 to 2026 economic plan. Translate the operating setting into inventory organizations, subinventories, items, units, sourcing rules, fulfillment lines, work definitions, and supply plans. Ask the consultant to trace one item through the required flow. AI product work can join source data, models, application code, evaluation, user feedback, cost controls, access rules, and production support under separate owners.
Evidence to request: Use a plan-to-fulfill scenario and require organization, item, supply, reservation, execution, costing, and accounting decisions. Define the user decision, model boundary, source data, evaluation set, deployment path, access control, cost target, failure response, and approving product owner.
Sourced semiconductors and advanced manufacturing context
Engineering, fabrication, and supply controls: Oracle Fusion SCM
A July 2025 City of San Jose economic-development release names advanced manufacturing and semiconductors among the industries the city plans to attract, retain, and grow. Define connections to Fusion Financials, warehouse and transport systems, suppliers, commerce tools, product systems, and planning services. Require evidence from Oracle Integration, files, APIs, or business events. Semiconductor and manufacturing programs may connect product definitions, equipment, process recipes, production schedules, quality results, suppliers, inventory, maintenance, and cost records.
Evidence to request: Review an SCM interface failure with source records, transformation, correction, replay, monitoring, and business recovery. Set the design or plant boundary, product revision, process control, equipment interface, traceability unit, quality release, supplier handoff, change window, and support owner.
Sourced data centers and energy infrastructure context
Capacity, continuity, and facility operations: Oracle Fusion SCM
San Jose's July 2026 large energy-use project page distinguishes data centers from research laboratories, advanced manufacturing sites, electric-vehicle charging hubs, and other power-intensive facilities. Set conversion, testing, cutover, and support ownership. Candidates should cover items, suppliers, stock, open orders, work orders, roles, scheduled processes, exceptions, and reconciliation. These facilities can combine power, cooling, networks, physical security, capacity, asset maintenance, environmental controls, backup systems, and tenant or workload commitments.
Evidence to request: Ask for an SCM conversion or release cycle the consultant owned, including inventory validation, open transactions, exceptions, and sign-off. Name the facility and workload boundary, capacity unit, power and cooling dependencies, availability target, access model, maintenance path, recovery test, and change authority.