Antevon vs Blue Yonder: 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

Blue Yonder is an enterprise planning option covering demand, supply, inventory and distribution planning.¹⁴

Demand and Supply Planning is a cloud-native software solution.¹⁴

Blue Yonder advertises implementation services to configure, test and deploy its solutions.²⁴

Not confirmed. An indexed Plantensive partner listing describes managed planning with Blue Yonder, but current package availability was not confirmed.²⁵

Blue Yonder currently markets Demand and Supply Planning on its public website.¹⁴

Blue Yonder belongs to the Panasonic group; its UK tax statement identifies Blue Yonder Holding, Inc. as the Blue Yonder group head.¹³

Not confirmed. Historical product and company aliases were not freshly verified.

Blue Yonder markets supply-chain planning and retail-planning solutions.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

Not confirmed. No minimum or maximum brand-revenue eligibility band was established for the planning offer.

Blue Yonder describes retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers as users.¹⁵

The retail-planning offer covers stores and channels rather than only a single online storefront.¹⁶

Blue Yonder describes a worldwide customer base across retail, manufacturing and logistics.¹⁵

A plausible fit is a business with planning owners across sales, marketing, supply chain and finance.¹⁴

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

Not confirmed. The planning contract does not publicly assign responsibility for extracting, cleaning and mapping the brand’s data.

Not confirmed. The split of recurring planning-parameter upkeep between client, provider and partner was not established.

Not confirmed. Whether implementation services are included in a planning licence 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.

Blue Yonder describes statistical forecasting at each SKU-location combination.¹⁷

Retail Demand and Data Services describes demand outcomes for each day.¹⁸

The published dm deployment describes store-level demand forecasts up to 52 weeks ahead.¹⁹

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.

Retail Allocation and Replenishment uses forecasts based on actual sales; a brand-side mapping of retailer sell-in and sell-through feeds was not established.²¹

Not confirmed. Named retailer EDI feeds, supported messages and read/write directions 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 describes modelling promotion and event uplift, including post-promotion effects.¹⁷

Retail Inventory describes workflows for new-item launches, promotions and product phase-outs.²¹

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 for Retail calculates vendor orders and store shipments to maintain target service levels.²⁰

Not confirmed. Creation, approval and transmission of purchase-order documents in the selected planning configuration were not established.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves and sends purchase orders remains unverified for the selected package.

Replenishment for Retail describes minimum order quantities as vendor constraints used in ordering.²⁰

Demand and Supply Planning describes checking demand against supplier lead times and other supply constraints.¹⁴

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.

Retail Financial planning provides cash-flow scenario analysis; hard cash-budget optimisation was not established.²²

Retail Financial planning connects Open-to-Buy and inventory budgets with assortment, allocation and replenishment teams.²²

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

Blue Yonder advertises shelf-life requirements across its integrated consumer-goods planning and execution platform; batch and lot functionality was not verified.²³

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 planning-specific Shopify connector and its data objects were not evidenced.

Not confirmed. A planning-specific Amazon connector and its data objects were not evidenced.

Network Trading Partner Services advertises connections to logistics service providers.²⁸

Not confirmed. A named current ERP adapter, supported objects and read/write scope for the selected planning package were not verified.

Not confirmed. CSV import/export support and object-level scope for the selected planning package 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.

In Retail Financial planning, the software supports analysis while planners make the decisions.²²

Demand and Supply Planning gives planners workflows and recommended actions to resolve exceptions.²⁷

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. No start-to-first-reviewed-forecast duration was established.

Demand and Supply Planning describes using history, product, location and customer attributes, order books and business inputs.¹⁴

Blue Yonder Professional Services describes configuration, data integration, governance, testing and deployment work.²⁶

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.

Blue Yonder advertises ongoing support and planning-model optimisation through Surround Services.²⁴

Blue Yonder lists a London office at 3rd Floor, 10 Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N 2DL.²⁹

Blue Yonder’s UK tax strategy names Blue Yonder Technology Solutions UK Limited.³⁰

Not confirmed. UK support hours, escalation coverage and applicable service levels were not established.

Blue Yonder publishes Morrisons as a UK retailer planning example.²⁷

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

Not confirmed. No public planning price or explicit pricing-quote requirement was established from the sources read.

Not confirmed. The billable metric for the selected planning package was not established.

Not confirmed. No minimum licence commitment, minimum fee or minimum billable quantity was established.

Not confirmed. No applicable implementation, onboarding or setup fee was established.

Not confirmed. A public trial duration or trial entitlement for planning was not established.

Not confirmed. Planning subscription length, renewal, cancellation and tax 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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