Antevon vs Columbus Consulting: retail consulting 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

Columbus is a retail planning and implementation consultancy with interim resource services.¹⁵

Columbus delivers retail consulting and implementation projects and also advertises interim resource assignments.¹⁹

Not confirmed. A standard recurring managed forecasting desk with a defined refresh cadence and job scope was not established.¹⁴

Columbus currently advertises retail consulting and short- or long-term interim resource engagements.¹⁴

The website identifies Columbus Consulting International LLC; its founder describes the business as a partnership.¹³

The firm also uses Columbus Consulting International and CCI.¹³

Columbus Consulting is the retail consulting firm at columbusconsulting.com.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 numerical client revenue, catalogue or minimum engagement threshold was established.¹⁶

Columbus works with retail, consumer packaged goods and grocery businesses.¹²

Columbus’s client directory includes a health and beauty category.¹⁷

The firm describes experience with wholesale and retail businesses.¹²

The firm describes operations in the United States, Canada and EMEA.¹³

Its strategy and process services involve executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.¹⁶

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

For its system-integration design service, Columbus says it validates and cleanses data.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Columbus offers a business-rule tune-up, but recurring parameter upkeep ownership was not established.¹⁸

Not confirmed. Implementation is offered, but its inclusion in any selected planning engagement or fee was not established.¹⁹

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.

Not confirmed. A standard forecast level by SKU, retailer, location and time bucket was not established.¹⁵

Not confirmed. No standard forecasting horizon was established.

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.

Not confirmed. No standard method for separating retailer sell-in orders from consumer sell-through was established.

Not confirmed. A current named retailer or EDI-provider connection and its sell-in or sell-through 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

Columbus lists pricing and promotion management among its services.¹⁸

Not confirmed. A standard new-product launch forecasting deliverable was not established.

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

Columbus offers replenishment strategy work within planning and inventory management.¹⁵

Purchase order management is listed among its merchandising services.¹⁸

Not confirmed. Responsibility for creating, approving, sending and following purchase orders was not established.¹⁸

Not confirmed. No standard treatment of supplier minimum order quantities was established.

Not confirmed. No standard treatment of supplier lead times was established.

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. Open-to-buy work is advertised, but cash-constrained purchase recommendations were not established.¹⁵

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

Not confirmed. No batch, expiry or shelf-life planning scope was established.

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 standard Shopify connection, its data objects and its read/write method were not established.

Not confirmed. A standard Amazon connection, its data objects and its read/write method were not established.

Columbus describes a project involving Manhattan Active Omni and integration for vendors, warehouses and 3PLs.²⁰

Columbus publishes an Oracle ERP and POS cloud-deployment case involving program management and business analysis.²¹

Not confirmed. A standard CSV import/export specification for the planning service was 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.

Not confirmed. Forecast sign-off, purchase approval and cash-commitment authority were not established.

Not confirmed. Ownership and cadence of routine forecast or stock exception handling were not established.

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 standard time from agreed data receipt to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was established.

For system design work, Columbus uses interactive workshops to define business requirements and how the systems should function.¹⁹

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.

Columbus describes training, shadow support and go-live hypercare for implementation projects.¹⁹

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office and its address were not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity or company-registration record was not established.

Not confirmed. Standard UK support hours, time-zone cover and response commitments were not established.

Columbus lists AllSaints, ASOS, Tesco, The Entertainer and The White Company in its UK/Europe client directory.¹⁷

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. Pricing remains unknown: the pages read supplied neither a usable public rate nor an explicit quote-only policy.

Not confirmed. The charging basis, including fixed fee, day rate or retainer, remains unknown.

Not confirmed. No minimum fee, minimum spend or minimum staffing commitment was established.

Not confirmed. No standard setup or onboarding fee was established.

Not confirmed. No trial or pilot pricing terms were established.

Not confirmed. No standard contract duration, renewal or cancellation terms were 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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