Key skills: SFI, MES, SAP
Shop Floor Integration (SFI)
Long Term
Travel Time 10%
Work delivery location (City) Orlando, FL
Description:
Citizenship Requirement: US Citizenship Required
Aerospace & Defense (A&D) experience required
Role Summary
The ITBA supports the design, integration, testing, and production support of SAP Shop Floor Integration (SFI / Apriso) processes within the broader MRP, PPDS, and manufacturing execution landscape. This role ensures that production order execution, shop-floor data collection, confirmations, and manufacturing feedback flow accurately between SAP S/4HANA and MES systems in a controlled A&D environment.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements & Design: Analyze and document business and functional requirements for SFI and related manufacturing execution processes. Support the design of integration points between SAP S/4HANA, SFI/Apriso, PPDS, MRP, and MES.
Functional Specifications: Define and maintain functional specifications for interfaces, enhancements, and process changes affecting shop-floor operations.
Execution Support: Support production order management, confirmations, work center execution, and real-time shop-floor data flows.
Testing & Deployment: Participate in system, integration, and regression testing, as well as go-live support for SFI-related changes.
Troubleshooting & Collaboration: Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, data mismatches, and interface defects in partnership with ABAP, MES, and business teams. Collaborate with manufacturing, operations, planning, and IT stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement: Support initiatives focused on production visibility, data quality, and execution efficiency.
Required Qualifications
SAP Manufacturing Expertise: Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA manufacturing processes, especially SFI / shop-floor integration. Knowledge of production execution, shop-floor reporting, production order interfaces, and manufacturing data flows.
IT Business Analyst Skills: Experience as an ITBA gathering requirements, documenting solutions, and supporting testing and implementation. Ability to translate business needs into system solutions.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Apriso or other MES platforms integrated with SAP.
Exposure to MRP and PPDS processes in a production environment.
Experience supporting end-to-end implementations, including blueprinting, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
Familiarity with A&D production operations and controlled manufacturing environments.