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Epicor Kinetic Advisory
Hands-on guidance for teams running or migrating to Kinetic — part master remediation, BOMs & BOOs, Methods of Manufacturing — aligned to how the floor actually operates.
Epicor Kinetic · ERP & Enterprise Systems · Issaquah, WA
Confront reality. Prevail.
Make your ERP work the way your shop floor actually runs.
I'm Braeden Johnston. I help manufacturers get more from Epicor Kinetic and the systems around it — an honest diagnosis first, then the custom software and automation to close the gaps your systems leave behind.
What I do
ERP, the data underneath it, and the tooling around it.
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ERP Discovery & Assessments
Structured discovery that maps your current-state systems, processes, and team culture, then turns what I find into a prioritized, traceable plan you can act on.
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Automation & Integration
Custom scripts, integrations, BAQ/dashboards, and document or web-to-print automation that remove the manual steps and handoffs sitting between your existing systems.
Selected work
Value delivered — not just systems shipped.
Manufacturing · CPQ
6.8%
contribution-margin lift in 2 quarters
CPQ logic engine, built from scratch
Architected a configurator that maps the full sales-to-accounting process and estimates material yield. Cut quoting from weeks to minutes and eliminated pricing errors — 50% of all business now runs through it.
Read case study →Manufacturing · Customer portal
9%
annual revenue increase
ERP-integrated ordering portal
Led the 0-to-1 launch of a self-service portal — 2,000+ users, 500+ configurable products — on a four-month timeline, synced two-way with the ERP and wired to push print-ready files straight to production.
Read case study →Manufacturing · Operations intelligence
200+
operational hours / week saved
Scheduling & reporting automation
Built SQL-powered dashboards and a rescheduling tool that replaced manual date-juggling and reporting, giving order-management and operations teams hundreds of hours back every week.
Read case study →How I work
Confront the brutal facts. Then build the system that prevails.
The Stockdale Paradox, as a working method — a straight diagnosis, then a system built to hold up. No blind optimism, no sugar-coating reality.
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- Manual re-keying between systems
- Reports that go stale on open
- Data that drifts from the floor
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- Automated, validated transactions
- Live dashboards leadership trusts
- Data that matches reality
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Confront
An honest audit of the systems, data, and process — no sugar-coating.
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Plan
Prioritized, traceable findings scoped into a fixed-bid plan.
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Build
The remediation, tooling, and automation, delivered in tight cycles.
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Hand off
A system your team owns and can run — with support if you want it.
About
A builder who's run the systems — not just advised on them.
I'm Braeden Johnston, founder of Stockdale Systems. For years I was the one-person technical product team behind a manufacturer's enterprise systems — architecting a CPQ engine from scratch, launching a customer portal for 2,000+ users, and building the dashboards and automations that handed hundreds of hours back to operations.
I started Stockdale Systems to do that work for more manufacturers: confront the brutal facts of your current systems honestly, then build the software, integrations, and automation that actually move the numbers — margin, revenue, and hours saved. You work directly with me, from first call to final hand-off.
Background: a degree in Project Management with a minor in Global Supply Chain Management, deep Epicor (ERP / Kinetic) and CPQ experience, and full-stack, API, and cloud architecture.
Get in touch
Tell me what's slowing you down.
Send a few details about the system or process you're wrestling with. I personally reply within one business day — no obligation.