Comparisons Planning platforms for large companies

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

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

Both forecast individual products, with Board planning by location and time, and Antevon by retailer and month¹⁸. Pick Board when you want planning software²¹. Pick Antevon when you want a fixed-fee, two-week forecasting project.

Who each one fits

Board serves retailers, manufacturers and consumer goods businesses¹⁵.

Antevon fits a beauty brand entering retail, or already selling there, without a full-time forecast owner. It serves the UK and EU.

When Board is the better choice

Choose Board if your parent group needs sales forecasts, supply and finance plans together, with people to own them²¹.
Choose Board if your retail team needs budgets for buying stock, plus restocking plans across stores and online³².
Choose Board if you need workflows for introducing products and retiring them from sale¹⁸.

When Antevon is the better choice

Choose Antevon if you need buy, move, hold and cut recommendations, with the money impact attached.
Choose Antevon if you need to weigh a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds.

How they differ

If you use Board's file-based forecasting process, allow for uploading and checking your source data²⁶. Board has a connector that brings in data from SAP business systems²⁸. Its supply plans can reflect delivery times, rules for choosing suppliers and how much they can provide²¹.

Antevon cleans imperfect data without a surcharge. The audit models each promotion separately and gives forecast numbers a likely range. You receive two Excel files to keep.

Board lists a UK and Ireland office in London²⁹. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call.

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.

Antevon

Board

What it is

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

Board combines financial and operational planning in an enterprise platform.¹²

Board’s quoted offering is planning software, not evidence of a contracted managed demand desk.²¹

Who it is for

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

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

Board explicitly positions its platform for enterprise planning; no minimum brand revenue was verified.¹²

Board names retail, manufacturing and CPG as sectors it serves.¹⁵

Who builds the forecast

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

In the documented file workflow, a user uploads and validates the source data before running a forecast.²⁶

The documented replenishment model includes user-maintained stock levels, sales windows, weeks cover and store ranging.²⁷

What the forecast covers

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.⁵

Board advertises demand forecasting from market level down to SKU, location and time.¹⁸

BEAM lets the user set the forecast horizon in time periods or run to the end of the model’s time range.¹⁹

Retailers and sell-through

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

The Haleon Italy example covers customer and product plans and describes potential connections to customer sell-out applications.²²

Promotions and launches

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

Board’s retail planning description includes optimising pricing and targeted promotions.¹⁷

Board advertises workflows for new product introduction and end-of-life planning.¹⁸

Orders to suppliers

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

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.³

Board calculates store and channel allocations and orders using configured rules and parameters.¹⁶

Board advertises aligning purchase orders to supply policies and constraints; PO creation and sending were not verified.²¹

Cash

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

Board models supply decisions against financial constraints and working-capital trade-offs.²¹

Batches and shelf life

Not part of the published offer.

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry-date and shelf-life constraint handling were not established for the selected offering.

What it connects to

Not part of the published offer.

Board documents an inbound connector for loading SAP data.²⁸

Configured JDBC connections can write data back when the connection account has the required permissions.²⁸

What your team still does

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

Board describes human control of material decisions; the buyer’s exact approval workflow still needs to be scoped.²¹

Board flags shortages, excess stock and parameter conflicts for planners to work through.²¹

Getting started

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 documented forecasting workflow requires dated numeric target data and at least one hierarchy column.²⁶

Operational Forecasting requires Foresight access and an eligible Developer or Power User license.²⁵

Support and UK presence

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.⁵

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

Board provides basic platform support and offers premium support plans for additional use-case assistance.²³

Board says its basic product-support team does not address issues specific to a custom use case.²³

How it is charged

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

Board asks buyers to discuss their requirements for a customised quote.¹⁴

Board’s support table refers to SaaS pricing, with premium support priced through sales.²⁴

Anything else

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

Nothing recorded yet.

Every fact we hold for this page (126), with what we could not confirm

Antevon

Board

What it is

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

Board combines financial and operational planning in an enterprise platform.¹²

Board’s quoted offering is planning software, not evidence of a contracted managed demand desk.²¹

Board currently presents an active enterprise planning offer and a route to a customised quote.¹⁴

Nordic Capital lists Board in its portfolio with ownership attributed to Fund IX.¹³

Board International is the company name used in the owner’s portfolio.¹³

Board is the planning platform offered under the Board name.¹²

Who it is for

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

Board explicitly positions its platform for enterprise planning; no minimum brand revenue was verified.¹²

Board names retail, manufacturing and CPG as sectors it serves.¹⁵

Board’s retail offering covers inventory planning across stores, online platforms and fulfilment centres.¹⁶

Nordic Capital describes Board as serving organisations across more than 100 countries.¹³

Board is a fit for an organisation with people who can own planning models, permissions and business decisions.¹⁷

Who builds the forecast

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

In the documented file workflow, a user uploads and validates the source data before running a forecast.²⁶

The documented replenishment model includes user-maintained stock levels, sales windows, weeks cover and store ranging.²⁷

Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the selected Board quote was not established.

What the forecast covers

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.

Board advertises demand forecasting from market level down to SKU, location and time.¹⁸

BEAM lets the user set the forecast horizon in time periods or run to the end of the model’s time range.¹⁹

The documented Operational Forecasting job supports up to 365 days, 52 weeks or 12 months ahead.²⁰

Retailers and sell-through

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 Haleon Italy example covers customer and product plans and describes potential connections to customer sell-out applications.²²

Not confirmed. A standard package ingesting both supplier sell-in and live retailer sell-through was not verified.

Not confirmed. Named UK retailer EDI connections and read/write scope were not verified.

Promotions and launches

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

Board’s retail planning description includes optimising pricing and targeted promotions.¹⁷

Board advertises workflows for new product introduction and end-of-life planning.¹⁸

Orders to suppliers

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

Board calculates store and channel allocations and orders using configured rules and parameters.¹⁶

Board advertises aligning purchase orders to supply policies and constraints; PO creation and sending were not verified.²¹

Not confirmed. Responsibility for creating, sending and following up supplier POs was not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity handling was not established for the selected Board planning offering.

Board’s supply plans can reflect lead times, sourcing rules and supplier capacity.²¹

Cash

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.

Board models supply decisions against financial constraints and working-capital trade-offs.²¹

Batches and shelf life

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry-date and shelf-life constraint handling were not established for the selected offering.

What it connects to

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 named Shopify connector, its data objects and its read/write scope were not verified.

Not confirmed. An Amazon marketplace sales, orders or inventory connector was not verified.

Not confirmed. Named 3PL connectors and stock or order read/write scope were not verified.

Board documents an inbound connector for loading SAP data.²⁸

Configured JDBC connections can write data back when the connection account has the required permissions.²⁸

The documented forecasting data workflow accepts CSV files and exports forecast results as CSV.²⁶

What your team still does

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.

Board describes human control of material decisions; the buyer’s exact approval workflow still needs to be scoped.²¹

Board flags shortages, excess stock and parameter conflicts for planners to work through.²¹

Getting started

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 generally applicable time to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was verified.

The documented forecasting workflow requires dated numeric target data and at least one hierarchy column.²⁶

Operational Forecasting requires Foresight access and an eligible Developer or Power User license.²⁵

Support and UK presence

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.

Board provides basic platform support and offers premium support plans for additional use-case assistance.²³

Board says its basic product-support team does not address issues specific to a custom use case.²³

Board lists a UK and Ireland office at 3 Noble Street in London.²⁹

Companies House lists BOARD M.I.T. LIMITED, number 03199408, as an active UK company.³⁰

Board advertises 24x7x365 basic product support for platform issues; custom use-case coverage differs.²³

Board publishes a merchandise-planning customer story about UK retailer The Very Group.³¹

How it is charged

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

Board asks buyers to discuss their requirements for a customised quote.¹⁴

Board’s support table refers to SaaS pricing, with premium support priced through sales.²⁴

Board uses user license types and subscription-dependent add-ons.²⁵

Not confirmed. No minimum subscription fee, seat count or spend was verified.

Not confirmed. No standard implementation or setup fee was verified.

Not confirmed. No public trial entitlement or trial duration was verified.

Not confirmed. The subscription term, renewal and cancellation terms for a Board purchase were not established.

Anything else

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

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. Price your own case.

Board

Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).

Not confirmed. No numeric public plan price was established on Board’s own pricing page.

Antevon

The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated.⁸

The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated.⁹

Switching or using both

If you keep Board, consider a separate Antevon review using sales exports, retailer context and agreed forecast and decision owners³.

Questions people ask

What do I need to send for the audit?

Antevon asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, orders to suppliers, a list of retailers and your promotion calendar. The two weeks start when the data arrives, not when you pay.

Can someone keep the forecast up to date?

Antevon's optional monthly desk refreshes each number and maintains the decision record. The monthly fee depends on your product range and retailer count, not hours worked.

Can Board support us outside office hours?

Board offers round-the-clock basic support for platform issues²³. Basic support does not cover problems specific to your own planning setup²³.

What happens to the data I send Antevon?

Antevon uses your audit exports and reports only to build your files. It shares them with nobody outside Antevon and deletes them on request.

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Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about Board 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.

Board's pages

Antevon's own pages

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Board is a trade mark of its owner. Antevon is not affiliated with Board.

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