Sourced aerospace, automotive, and advanced manufacturing context
Aircraft, vehicles, and controlled production: SAP PP
A 2025 city economic-development report says the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center supports continued growth in aerospace, automotive, and advanced manufacturing. Translate the operating setting into material masters, planning strategies, lot sizes, bills of material, routings, work centers, and order controls. Ask the consultant to trace one product from demand through confirmation and receipt. These operations can connect approved designs, parts, suppliers, equipment, production orders, inspections, serial records, maintenance, safety evidence, and release authority.
Evidence to request: Use a demand-to-production exercise and require planning, supply, capacity, order, confirmation, quality, and costing decisions. Trace the aircraft, vehicle, or component from approved configuration and material through production or maintenance, inspection, serial history, discrepancy, delivery, and authorized release.
Sourced life sciences context
Laboratory, clinical, and product records: SAP PP
Greenville's economic-development site describes Main Street Labs as a downtown laboratory hub for life-sciences companies. Set boundaries among PP, Materials Management, Sales, Quality Management, plant maintenance, costing, warehouse tools, and manufacturing systems. Require a comparable integration example with recovery steps. Life-sciences platforms may join samples, experiments, instruments, protected clinical data, laboratory results, product records, validation, quality events, and regulated retention.
Evidence to request: Review a shop-floor or planning interface with mapping, timing, failure handling, replay, and production reconciliation. Set the scientific or product question, sample lineage, protected fields, instrument interface, reproducibility or validation test, quality decision, retention rule, and approval owner.
Sourced knowledge economy and industrial technology context
Research, software, and engineered services: SAP PP
Greenville's economic-development materials connect the local knowledge economy to research, product development, technology, and manufacturing activity. Define data, testing, cutover, and plant-support ownership. Candidates should cover materials, recipes or routings, resources, inventory, open orders, planning runs, interfaces, and operational sign-off. Knowledge-economy roles can span digital products, engineering research, client delivery, industrial software, analytics, intellectual property, production systems, and continuing support.
Evidence to request: Ask for a plant cutover or planning recovery the consultant owned, including stock, open orders, jobs, exceptions, and fallback. Name the research, product, or client boundary, technical artifact, data and intellectual-property ownership, production interface, release evidence, delivery decision, and support obligation.