Antevon vs EFESO Management Consultants: system changes 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

EFESO belongs in the planning-consultancy category because it offers supply-chain planning process design and implementation.¹⁶

EFESO delivers collaborative planning transformation projects covering organization, process and software implementation.¹⁶

EFESO also advertises a Planning as a Service delivery model, without publishing a task-by-task recurring desk scope.¹⁹

EFESO currently presents an active cosmetics consulting offer.¹⁵

EFESO describes itself as privately held, with investments from Eurazeo and TowerBrook Capital Partners.¹⁴

Not confirmed. Current ownership percentages and the full control structure were not established.

The legal notice identifies EFESO Consulting France SAS as the website publisher legal entity.¹²

EFESO is the shortened name used by the consultancy.¹³

The official trading name is EFESO Management Consultants.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

EFESO names global brands, mid-sized companies and private equity among the organisations it works with.¹³

Not confirmed. Eligibility or a minimum engagement size for a £0.5–25M indie beauty brand was not established.

EFESO has a dedicated cosmetics consulting offer.¹⁵

The cosmetics offer explicitly addresses DTC, e-commerce and retail complexity.¹⁵

EFESO advertises global delivery with a local office network.¹⁷

Not confirmed. EFESO does not establish a fixed prerequisite for the client’s planning-team maturity in the pages read.

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 recurring split for extracting, mapping and cleaning client planning data was not established.

Not confirmed. Who maintains recurring planning parameters, event context and data feeds was not established.

EFESO offers planning process and software implementation; a universal included package or fee was not established.²⁰

Not confirmed. Whether a specific implementation, data migration, platform licence or ongoing support is included in a proposed fee 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.

Not confirmed. A standard forecast grain by SKU, retailer or location was not established.

Not confirmed. A standard demand forecast horizon and time bucket were not 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. A documented distinction between retailer sell-in orders and consumer sell-through inputs was not established.

Not confirmed. A standardized retailer EDI connection, its data objects and read/write behavior 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

Not confirmed. Promotion uplift modelling or retailer promotion-profit analysis was not established for EFESO’s planning offer.

EFESO describes cosmetics launch-process redesign, rather than a specified new-product demand forecast package.¹⁸

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

Not confirmed. A defined replenishment policy or recurring reorder operation was not established.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves or sends purchase orders under the planning offer was not established.

Not confirmed. Responsibility for PO placement and supplier follow-up was not established.

Not confirmed. How minimum order quantities or supplier pack multiples enter the planning service was not established.

EFESO considers service lead time in supply-chain network design.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Supplier-specific lead-time inputs and their recurring maintenance were not 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.

EFESO offers working-capital optimization across service, inventory and payment terms.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Hard cash-budget constraints on recommended buys were not established.

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

The cosmetics offer mentions pre-built batch tracking, but shelf-life or expiry-based replenishment was not established.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Expiry dates, shelf-life constraints and FEFO replenishment were not 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 standardized Shopify connection, its data objects and read/write behavior were not established.

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

Not confirmed. A standardized 3PL connection, its data objects and read/write behavior were not established.

Not confirmed. A standardized ERP connection, its data objects and read/write behavior were not established.

Not confirmed. A standardized CSV/export connection, its data objects and read/write behavior 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.

Not confirmed. Forecast sign-off, cash approval and purchase authorization responsibilities were not established.

Not confirmed. Who owns recurring forecast and stock exceptions was 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 starting inputs to a reviewed decision-ready forecast was established.

Planning transformation starts with maturity exploration and the design of roles, workflows and IT needs.¹⁶

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.

EFESO describes hands-on capability building and adoption support alongside client teams.¹⁶

EFESO lists a Birmingham office and a UK local leader.²¹

Companies House lists EFESO CONSULTING (UK) LTD, company 02870696, as active at the Birmingham address.²²

Not confirmed. UK support hours, response-time guarantees and engagement-specific contracting or data terms were not established.

EFESO describes logistics and supply-chain strategy work with Primark supporting UK, European and US expansion.²³

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. Public pricing and an explicit quote-only pricing policy were not established for the scoped service.

Not confirmed. The charging basis for project consulting or Planning as a Service was not established.

Not confirmed. A minimum fee or minimum billable engagement was not established.

Not confirmed. A separate assessment, setup, data or implementation fee was not established.

Not confirmed. A trial or free assessment of the scoped planning service was not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum contract duration, renewal, cancellation and payment 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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