Antevon vs Microsoft Excel: a workbook to run, or a two-week 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

This comparison is about running the plan inside the brand, not buying an operated forecasting service.¹⁴

The brand builds and operates this workbook-based plan.¹⁴

Microsoft identifies its software names and brand assets as owned by Microsoft and its group of companies.¹³

The spreadsheet product is also called Excel.¹²

Build and run the plan in Microsoft Excel is the DIY workbook option, using Microsoft Excel.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 brand revenue band or ready-made SKU/retailer planning capacity was established.

Excel is a general spreadsheet and analysis tool that the brand can adapt for its own planning work.¹²

A DIY workbook can combine channel exports when the operator imports and maps compatible files.¹⁵

Microsoft publishes UK Excel and business-plan pages with GBP prices excluding VAT.¹⁶

The DIY choice fits a team with someone able to prepare time series, choose settings and maintain the workbook.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

The workbook owner supplies and prepares the history and checks how imported columns are interpreted.¹⁵

The workbook owner maintains ranges, forecast settings, refresh logic and any buying parameters.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A demand-planning workbook build or operated implementation was not established as part of the selected Microsoft 365 licence.

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.

Forecast Sheet uses paired time and value series; the brand must structure any product-by-retailer planning.¹⁴

Microsoft says FORECAST.ETS is not available in Excel for the web, iOS or Android.¹⁷

In Forecast Sheet the operator selects the forecast end date rather than accepting a fixed published planning horizon.¹⁴

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. Public sources read did not establish automatic separation of retailer sell-in orders from consumer sell-through.

Not confirmed. A native retail edi planning connection was not established for the selected Excel workbook.

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. Public sources read did not establish automatic promotion tagging or promotion-uplift modelling in the selected DIY workbook.

Not confirmed. Public sources read did not establish a packaged new-product launch forecasting workflow.

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. Public sources read did not establish a packaged stock-aware replenishment engine.

Not confirmed. Public sources read did not establish a packaged purchase-order creation, sending or supplier-execution workflow.

The brand or its appointed operator places and follows up purchase orders in the DIY option.¹⁴

Not confirmed. Public sources read did not establish automatic minimum-order-quantity or pack-size rules.

Not confirmed. Public sources read did not establish a packaged supplier lead-time and reorder-date workflow.

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. Public sources read did not establish a packaged cash-constrained buying optimiser.

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

Not confirmed. Public sources read did not establish batch, expiry or shelf-life-aware inventory planning.

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 native shopify planning connection was not established for the selected Excel workbook.

Not confirmed. A native amazon planning connection was not established for the selected Excel workbook.

Not confirmed. A native three pl planning connection was not established for the selected Excel workbook.

Not confirmed. A native erp planning connection was not established for the selected Excel workbook.

Excel documents text/CSV imports and exports, which the operator can use for compatible brand exports.¹⁵

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.

The brand retains forecast sign-off, buying authority and cash approval in this DIY workflow.¹⁴

The workbook owner investigates unusual demand, stockouts and commercial events and decides whether to adjust the model.¹⁴

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 public time to a reviewed, decision-ready brand forecast was established.

A basic Excel forecast needs historical values on a consistent timeline and an operator to prepare and choose the series.¹⁴

Desktop co-authoring has version, sign-in, file-format and cloud-location requirements.²⁰

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.

Apps for business advertises support for billing, account access and general technical usage.¹⁶

Microsoft identifies Reading as its UK headquarters.²¹

Companies House lists MICROSOFT LIMITED, company 01624297, as active with its registered office at Microsoft Campus in Reading.²²

Apps for business advertises around-the-clock technical and account support.¹⁶

Not confirmed. No named UK brand running this exact DIY forecasting workflow was verified.

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

The selected Microsoft 365 licence plans have exact public scoped UK prices.¹⁶

The DIY cost separates any extra licence spend from the team time needed to run the plan.¹⁶

Not confirmed. No separate public demand-planning workbook setup fee was established for this DIY option.

The business trial terms say one month free, a credit card is required and the subscription converts to paid unless cancelled during the trial.¹⁶

Microsoft says MCA subscriptions have a seven-day prorated cancellation window after start or renewal; outside it, turn off recurring billing for the end of the term.¹⁹

Paying an MCA annual subscription monthly does not make it a cancellable monthly commitment.¹⁹

The annual price anchors are yearly-paid auto-renewing subscriptions.¹⁶

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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