Antevon vs Arkieva: planning software or a two-week forecast audit

Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project.³

The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger.⁵

Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit.³

Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website.²

Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.

The public trading name is Antevon.¹

Arkieva is an enterprise supply-chain planning option, not solely a demand-desk service.¹⁴

Arkieva supplies configurable planning software.¹²

Arkieva also provides collaborative implementation and configuration work.²³

Arkieva currently advertises an enterprise planning suite and invites demo requests.¹²

Not confirmed. Arkieva reports a growth investment from Banneker Partners; its precise legal parent and ownership percentages were not established.¹³

Arkieva Enterprise is the named enterprise suite.¹²

Arkieva offers supply-chain planning software.¹²

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.⁴

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so.³

The stated service audience is in the UK and EU.⁴

The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast.⁵

Arkieva says companies above $250 million in revenue typically need Enterprise; this is not a stated minimum.¹²

Arkieva targets chemical, process, consumer-packaged-goods, and food-and-beverage manufacturers.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Specific Shopify, Amazon and UK retailer sales-channel coverage was not established.

Arkieva describes serving global enterprises.¹³

Arkieva is a stronger fit where a planning team can work with sales, marketing, finance and operations.¹²

The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions.⁵

Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work.⁵

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.

On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger.⁵

Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.

The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login.⁵

Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge.⁵

The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep.⁵

Data connection and initial setup are collaborative between Arkieva and the buyer.²³

Not confirmed. Responsibility for ongoing exports, feed monitoring and mapping cleanup was not established.

Planners can edit optimization constraint penalties.²⁰

Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the quoted licence or charged separately was not established.

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.⁵

Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.

Statistical forecasts can be generated at user-selected aggregation levels.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A standard maximum demand-forecast horizon was not established.

The Replenishment Planner documentation describes a typical near-term planning window of 4 to 13 weeks.¹⁷

Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.⁷

Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

The documented demand workflow extracts ERP sales orders, transaction data and master data.²²

Not confirmed. Named UK retailer consumer sell-through feeds and sell-in versus sell-through reconciliation were not established.

Not confirmed. A retailer EDI connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.

The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range.³

The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds.⁶

Not in the published offer. The standard method and data requirements for a product with no sales history are not specified in the public offer.

Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history.³

Demand Planning includes lifecycle and promotion planning.¹⁸

Product lifecycle tools can forecast new products before normal product codes are available.¹⁹

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.³

Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.³

Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step.⁴

Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.

The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast.⁷

Replenishment Planner supports multi-echelon inventory balancing and integrated materials and distribution requirements planning.¹⁷

Replenishment planning takes existing purchase orders into account.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Creating, sending or writing supplier purchase orders back to an ERP was not established.

Not confirmed. Who creates and places supplier purchase orders or follows suppliers was not established.

Not confirmed. Enforcement of supplier minimum order quantities was not established.²⁰

Inventory planning uses lead-time information, and replenishment reports identify lead-time constraints.²¹

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.⁵

Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.

Not confirmed. Hard cash-budget constraints on replenishment or purchasing were not established.¹⁴

Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.

Inventory Planning supports batch- or lot-level aging and remaining-shelf-life reporting.²¹

Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not confirmed. A Shopify connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.

Not confirmed. An Amazon connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.

Not confirmed. A named 3PL connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.

Arkieva documents a proprietary connector with staging databases and configurable integration templates for enterprise systems.²⁴

Not confirmed. An explicit CSV import/export format and template were not established.

Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.⁵

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.

The documented statistical forecast workflow requires a user to save the forecast for downstream reports.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Final cash commitment, purchasing approval and contractual forecast-signoff authority were not established.

Planners can manually adjust history after anomaly detection.²²

The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment.³

The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14.³

The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar.³

The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions.⁵

Not confirmed. Time to a first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.²³

Implementation involves understanding business goals and connecting data, systems, people and process.²³

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.⁵

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.⁵

The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs.⁵

Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA.²

Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.

Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379.²

Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.

Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.

Arkieva describes a dedicated support team and training after delivered releases.²³

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established.²⁵

Not confirmed. A UK legal or contracting entity was not established.

Not confirmed. UK support hours, response times and service levels were not established.

Arkieva publishes a Linde case describing deployment across Europe, the UK and China.²⁶

Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call.⁸

Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour.¹⁰

The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed.⁸

Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery.⁸

Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge.¹⁰

The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count.¹⁰

Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.

Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.

There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data.⁵

Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.

The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms.²

The monthly desk is optional after the audit.¹⁰

The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription.¹⁰

The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice.⁸

Arkieva Enterprise pricing is tailored to the buyer’s needs.¹²

Enterprise pricing is scoped after a business-goals assessment; a seat, usage or revenue charging rule was not established.¹²

Not confirmed. Minimum Enterprise spend or user commitment was not established.

Not confirmed. A setup or integration fee amount was not established.

Not confirmed. A current Enterprise trial and a currently buyable Arkieva+ trial were not established.

Not confirmed. Contract duration, renewal and cancellation terms were not established.

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.¹¹

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