Sourced artificial intelligence and software context
Models, products, and production services: SAP MM
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 enterprise structure, material master controls, purchasing rules, inventory status, movement types, and valuation. Ask how each configuration choice changes the business process. 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 requisition-to-invoice scenario and require organization, master-data, approval, receipt, valuation, and exception 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: SAP MM
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 Finance, Controlling, Sales, Production Planning, warehouse systems, suppliers, and procurement networks. Require evidence from the interface or cross-module process that matches the opening. 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 a cross-module posting or supplier integration with mapping, timing, failure handling, and financial reconciliation. 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: SAP MM
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 migration, testing, cutover, and support duties. Candidates should explain materials, vendors, source records, stock, open purchase documents, roles, outputs, 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 a materials cutover the consultant owned, including stock validation, open documents, role testing, output checks, 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.