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

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Checked against Arkieva’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 21 Oct 2026.

## The short answer

Arkieva supplies configurable planning software [12]. Antevon delivers a two-week forecasting audit for a fixed fee [3]. Pick Arkieva for a planning team working across departments, or Antevon if nobody owns your forecast full-time [5, 12].

## Who each one fits

Arkieva says companies above $250 million in revenue typically need Enterprise, without setting a minimum [12].

Antevon is for independent beauty and skincare brands in the UK and EU [4]. The audit covers brands selling through retailers or preparing to do so [3].

## When Arkieva is the better choice

- Pick Arkieva for a manufacturing network with planners, because it balances production capacity, materials and distribution [27].
- Pick Arkieva if you need reports on stock age and remaining shelf life for each batch [21].

## When Antevon is the better choice

- Pick Antevon if you want a working session to go through the audit's first decisions together [5].
- Pick Antevon if you need to compare a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds [6].

## How they differ

In Arkieva's forecast workflow, a user saves the forecast for use in reports [16]. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call [5].

Antevon's audit leaves you with two Excel files to keep [5]. The forecast gives a number for each product, retailer and month [5]. Buy, move, hold and cut recommendations include their money impact [3]. An optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the record of decisions [5].

Arkieva's data connector brings information from business systems into its planning database [24].

Arkieva describes serving global enterprises [13]. Its implementation support includes training after software releases [23].

## Side by side

Rows are the questions UK beauty brands ask us. Each line is a fact from the company’s own public pages. Check this comparison: sources and dates below.

### What it is

- Antevon: Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project. [3]
- Antevon: The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit. [3]
- Antevon: Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.
- Antevon: The public trading name is Antevon. [1]
- Arkieva: Arkieva is an enterprise supply-chain planning option, not solely a demand-desk service. [14]
- Arkieva: Arkieva supplies configurable planning software. [12]
- Arkieva: Arkieva also provides collaborative implementation and configuration work. [23]
- Arkieva: Arkieva currently advertises an enterprise planning suite and invites demo requests. [12]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Arkieva reports a growth investment from Banneker Partners; its precise legal parent and ownership percentages were not established. [13]
- Arkieva: Arkieva Enterprise is the named enterprise suite. [12]
- Arkieva: Arkieva offers supply-chain planning software. [12]

### Who it is for

- Antevon: The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue. [4]
- Antevon: Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so. [3]
- Antevon: The stated service audience is in the UK and EU. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast. [5]
- Arkieva: Arkieva says companies above $250 million in revenue typically need Enterprise; this is not a stated minimum. [12]
- Arkieva: Arkieva targets chemical, process, consumer-packaged-goods, and food-and-beverage manufacturers. [15]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Specific Shopify, Amazon and UK retailer sales-channel coverage was not established.
- Arkieva: Arkieva describes serving global enterprises. [13]
- Arkieva: Arkieva is a stronger fit where a planning team can work with sales, marketing, finance and operations. [12]

### Who builds the forecast

- Antevon: The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.
- Antevon: On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.
- Antevon: The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login. [5]
- Antevon: Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge. [5]
- Antevon: The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep. [5]
- Arkieva: Data connection and initial setup are collaborative between Arkieva and the buyer. [23]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Responsibility for ongoing exports, feed monitoring and mapping cleanup was not established.
- Arkieva: Planners can edit optimization constraint penalties. [20]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the quoted licence or charged separately was not established.

### What the forecast covers

- Antevon: The forecast is by product, retailer and month. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.
- Arkieva: Statistical forecasts can be generated at user-selected aggregation levels. [16]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A standard maximum demand-forecast horizon was not established.
- Arkieva: The Replenishment Planner documentation describes a typical near-term planning window of 4 to 13 weeks. [17]

### Retailers and sell-through

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.
- Antevon: The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it. [7]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Arkieva: The documented demand workflow extracts ERP sales orders, transaction data and master data. [22]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Named UK retailer consumer sell-through feeds and sell-in versus sell-through reconciliation were not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A retailer EDI connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.

### Promotions and launches

- Antevon: The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range. [3]
- Antevon: The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds. [6]
- Antevon: 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.
- Antevon: Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history. [3]
- Arkieva: Demand Planning includes lifecycle and promotion planning. [18]
- Arkieva: Product lifecycle tools can forecast new products before normal product codes are available. [19]

### Orders to suppliers

- Antevon: The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact. [3]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.
- Antevon: Purchase orders are inputs to the audit. [3]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step. [4]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.
- Antevon: The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast. [7]
- Arkieva: Replenishment Planner supports multi-echelon inventory balancing and integrated materials and distribution requirements planning. [17]
- Arkieva: Replenishment planning takes existing purchase orders into account. [17]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Creating, sending or writing supplier purchase orders back to an ERP was not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Who creates and places supplier purchase orders or follows suppliers was not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Enforcement of supplier minimum order quantities was not established. [20]
- Arkieva: Inventory planning uses lead-time information, and replenishment reports identify lead-time constraints. [21]

### Cash

- Antevon: Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Hard cash-budget constraints on replenishment or purchasing were not established. [14]

### Batches and shelf life

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.
- Arkieva: Inventory Planning supports batch- or lot-level aging and remaining-shelf-life reporting. [21]

### What it connects to

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A Shopify connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. An Amazon connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A named 3PL connector, its data objects and read/write scope were not established.
- Arkieva: Arkieva documents a proprietary connector with staging databases and configurable integration templates for enterprise systems. [24]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. An explicit CSV import/export format and template were not established.

### What your team still does

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.
- Antevon: The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.
- Arkieva: The documented statistical forecast workflow requires a user to save the forecast for downstream reports. [16]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Final cash commitment, purchasing approval and contractual forecast-signoff authority were not established.
- Arkieva: Planners can manually adjust history after anomaly detection. [22]

### Getting started

- Antevon: The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment. [3]
- Antevon: The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14. [3]
- Antevon: The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar. [3]
- Antevon: The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions. [5]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Time to a first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established. [23]
- Arkieva: Implementation involves understanding business goals and connecting data, systems, people and process. [23]

### Support and UK presence

- Antevon: Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast. [5]
- Antevon: The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14. [5]
- Antevon: The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.
- Antevon: Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.
- Arkieva: Arkieva describes a dedicated support team and training after delivered releases. [23]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established. [25]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A UK legal or contracting entity was not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. UK support hours, response times and service levels were not established.
- Arkieva: Arkieva publishes a Linde case describing deployment across Europe, the UK and China. [26]

### How it is charged

- Antevon: Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call. [8]
- Antevon: Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour. [10]
- Antevon: The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed. [8]
- Antevon: Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery. [8]
- Antevon: Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge. [10]
- Antevon: The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count. [10]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.
- Antevon: There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.
- Antevon: The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms. [2]
- Antevon: The monthly desk is optional after the audit. [10]
- Antevon: The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription. [10]
- Antevon: The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice. [8]
- Arkieva: Arkieva Enterprise pricing is tailored to the buyer’s needs. [12]
- Arkieva: Enterprise pricing is scoped after a business-goals assessment; a seat, usage or revenue charging rule was not established. [12]
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Minimum Enterprise spend or user commitment was not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A setup or integration fee amount was not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. A current Enterprise trial and a currently buyable Arkieva+ trial were not established.
- Arkieva: Not confirmed. Contract duration, renewal and cancellation terms were not established.

### Anything else

- Antevon: Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request. [11]
- Arkieva: Nothing recorded yet.

Words used in the table:

- SKU: one product in one size or shade
- MOQ: the smallest order a supplier accepts
- PO: a purchase order, your order to a supplier
- Lead time: how long a supplier takes to deliver
- Sell-through: what shoppers bought at the retailer
- EDI: the data link large retailers use for orders and sales
- GMV: total sales through your online store
- BOM: the list of parts that go into a product
- 3PL: a warehouse company that stores and ships for you
- ERP: a business system for stock, orders and accounts

## Published prices

Each price is the company’s own list price, as its page shows it, with the date we checked it. We do not estimate a price a company does not publish.

### Arkieva

- Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).
- Not confirmed. No current Enterprise plan amount, currency or billing period was established.

### Antevon

- The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated. [8] Checked 21 Oct 2026.
- The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated. [9] Checked 21 Oct 2026.

## Switching or using both

You could keep Arkieva and use Antevon's audit separately, without adopting software for it [3, 5]. Agree who owns decisions and who approves and carries them out, without assuming a system connection [3].

## Questions people ask

### Can I forecast a product before it has a normal code?

Arkieva's new-product planning tools let you create temporary product codes [19]. You can then forecast products before normal codes are available [19].

### What do I need to send for the audit?

Antevon asks for 12 to 24 months of sales and your orders to suppliers [3]. Send your retailer list and promotion calendar too [3]. Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit fee [5].

### When does the audit clock start?

Antevon starts the audit when your data arrives, not when you pay [3]. The draft arrives on day 13, followed by the walkthrough on day 14 [3].

### Does Arkieva publish a standard price?

Arkieva sets Enterprise pricing after assessing your business goals [12]. The checked pages do not give a current Enterprise price, currency or billing period.

## Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about Arkieva comes from a public page, read on the date shown. Antevon's own column follows the same rule.

We read these pages on 21 Oct 2026.

1. Brand kit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/brand
2. Terms · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/terms
3. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit
4. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt
5. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/
6. What a November promotion has to sell to pay back · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/november-promotion-payback
7. Only 2 left, and the factory needs four weeks · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/low-stock-alert-supplier-order-date
8. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit
9. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt
10. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/
11. Privacy · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/privacy
12. FAQ | Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Software Solutions - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/enterprise-solutions/faq/
13. Arkieva Partners with Banneker for Growth Investment, https://arkieva.com/arkieva-strategic-growth-investment-banneker-partners/
14. Supply Chain Planning Software for Complex Enterprises - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/
15. Supply Chain Planning Solutions, https://arkieva.com/small-business-solutions/
16. Statistical Forecast, https://support.arkieva.com/portal/en/kb/articles/acd-statistical-forecasting
17. Replenishment Planner, https://support.arkieva.com/portal/en/kb/articles/acd-replenishment-planner
18. Demand Planning Software: AI-Driven Forecasting & Optimization, https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/
19. Life Cycle Management Tool for Demand Planning - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/life-cycle-management/
20. Optimization, https://support.arkieva.com/portal/en/kb/articles/acd-linear-programming-lp-model
21. Inventory Planning Introduction, https://support.arkieva.com/portal/en/kb/articles/acd-inventory-planning-1
22. Demand Planning Introduction, https://support.arkieva.com/portal/en/kb/articles/acd-demand-planning-software
23. Our Implementation Method for Software for SCM - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/platform/implementation-method/
24. Data Integration for Supply Chain Planning Software - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/data-integration/
25. Contact Arkieva | Supply Chain Planning Solutions, https://arkieva.com/contact-us/
26. Linde Optimizes Supply Planning Network | Case Study, https://arkieva.com/resources/linde-optimizes-supply-planning-network/
27. Supply Planning - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/
28. Case Study | Optimizing Capacity Planning - Arkieva, https://arkieva.com/resources/mcbride-strengthens-sop-and-capacity-planning-processes/

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