Antevon vs Graphene Partners: inventory 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

Graphene Partners is a project supply-chain consultancy with inventory-planning and broader logistics scope.¹³

The documented delivery model is hands-on consulting projects with implementation support.¹⁸

Graphene Partners currently advertises supply-chain advisory and implementation services on its live website.¹⁴

The site identifies Graphene Partners Chazanow Dymarski Karbowiak Sp. K. in Warsaw as its legal operator.¹³

Not confirmed. Current ultimate equity ownership was not verified.

Not confirmed. No current trading aliases were verified.

The consultancy trades as Graphene Partners.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 current revenue band, SKU limit or minimum client size was established.

The inventory service addresses retail, wholesale, ecommerce, manufacturing and HoReCa businesses.¹⁴

Graphene describes inventory work across retail, wholesale and ecommerce businesses.¹⁴

Graphene says it works with clients in the United Kingdom and other European markets from its Poland-based business.¹⁵

Not confirmed. No formal client-team or operator-maturity requirement was published 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

For network-design projects, the customer provides operational and financial data and Graphene collects and verifies it.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Who maintains parameters after implementation and at what cadence was not established.

Not confirmed. Implementation support is offered, but whether it is included in a standard 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. Operational forecast granularity by SKU, retailer, location and time period was not established.

Not confirmed. No operational demand-forecast 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.

Graphene helps retailers define and deploy a process that integrates POS data into a demand plan.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A maintained retailer EDI integration was not evidenced in the current pages read.

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

The retail service includes sales forecasting, risk assessment and promotion planning for on-shelf availability.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A specific product-launch forecasting service or method 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

Graphene offers supply and replenishment planning support and helps implement replenishment algorithms.¹⁴

Not confirmed. Routine purchase-order creation, sending, approval and supplier follow-up were not established.

Not confirmed. Who creates and places routine product purchase orders was not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity treatment in stock planning was not established.

Graphene models the financial impact of service policies including lead times in network-design work.¹⁷

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.

Graphene describes Open-To-Buy budgeting, demand allocation and planning as part of inventory consulting.¹⁴

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry, shelf-life and FEFO planning capabilities 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 maintained Shopify integration was not evidenced in the current pages read.

Not confirmed. A maintained Amazon integration was not evidenced in the current pages read.

Not confirmed. A maintained 3PL data integration was not evidenced in the current pages read.

Not confirmed. A maintained ERP integration was not evidenced in the current pages read.

Not confirmed. A maintained CSV integration was not evidenced in the current pages read.

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 the published convenience-chain case, the client board decided whether to implement the recommended solution.¹⁸

Not confirmed. Authority for recurring forecast sign-off, purchase commitments and cash approval was not established.

Not confirmed. Who monitors and resolves recurring demand 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. Time to a first reviewed, decision-ready demand forecast was not established.

Network-design work uses client operational and financial data, operations visits and interviews with key experts.¹⁷

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.

Graphene offers implementation and post-go-live support, and says some warehouse audits lead to long-term support.¹⁹

Not confirmed. No current staffed UK office was verified.

Not confirmed. No current UK contracting entity tied to the advertised Polish consultancy was verified.

Companies House records GRAPHENE PARTNERS UK LTD, number 11130145, as dissolved on 18 May 2021.²⁰

Not confirmed. UK service hours, response SLA and timezone coverage were not established.

Graphene says it works with clients from the United Kingdom.¹⁵

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 remains unknown after checking the current pages and targeted search.

Not confirmed. The consultancy charging basis and VAT treatment were not established.

Not confirmed. No consultancy minimum fee or engagement minimum was established.

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

Not confirmed. No trial terms were established for the consulting service.

Not confirmed. No standard engagement duration, cancellation, renewal or billing term was 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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