Antevon vs an interim demand planner: a temporary hire, or a fixed-fee forecast project

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 is an in-house staffing alternative rather than a standard managed demand-desk subscription.¹²

The core option is hiring a person into an agreed temporary role, with fixed-term employment one available route.¹³

Agency staffing is a distinct route in which the worker contracts with an agency and temporarily works for the hirer.¹⁵

Current public UK adverts establish that fixed-term demand-planning hiring and temporary planning-reset assignments remain available routes.¹²

There is no single owner for this hiring approach; the employer, agency or contractor depends on the engagement.¹³

Related search labels include contract demand planner and fixed-term demand planner, but these can describe different legal engagement routes.¹²

Hire an interim or contract demand planner is a staffing approach, not a single software product or recruitment supplier.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 universal brand-revenue, catalogue or headcount threshold was established for hiring an interim planner.

Current role examples include manufacturing and a growing product-development business; this is not a market-wide sector limit.¹⁴

Not confirmed. DTC, wholesale and retailer-specific experience must be checked against the chosen candidate and assignment.

The verified examples are UK-based roles in Scunthorpe and South London.¹²

An interim can fit an established planning operation or a reset where the brand supplies an internal sponsor and cross-functional access.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

A planner can maintain planning data, but the brand still needs to provide access and commercial context.¹²

The Scunthorpe role assigns lead-time, safety-stock and reorder-policy upkeep to the planner.¹²

A separate temporary S&OP assignment explicitly includes designing and implementing a planning framework; this is not automatically included with every hire.¹⁴

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. The verified fixed-term advert does not specify SKU-by-retailer granularity.

One fixed-term role explicitly includes rolling 3, 6, 12 and 24 month forecasts.¹²

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. Retailer sell-in and consumer sell-through forecasting were not distinguished in the verified current roles.

Not confirmed. No standard retailer EDI connector or read/write data feed is established by hiring a planner.

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 forecasting must be specified in the role brief; it was not established as a universal included duty.

The Scunthorpe role includes new-product introduction, transitions and end-of-life planning.¹²

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

The Scunthorpe role includes reviewing MRP outputs and managing safety stocks and reorder policies.¹²

Not confirmed. Creating or sending purchase orders is not established as a standard included duty.

Not confirmed. The person responsible for sending purchase orders and following suppliers must be specified in the assignment.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity handling depends on the selected role, systems and candidate; no standard scope was verified.

Managing lead times within MRP is an explicit duty in the Scunthorpe example.¹²

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. Financial assumptions appear in one role, but explicit cash-constrained purchasing optimisation was not verified.

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning were not verified for this generic hiring option.

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. No standard Shopify connector or read/write data feed is established by hiring a planner.

Not confirmed. No standard Amazon connector or read/write data feed is established by hiring a planner.

Not confirmed. No standard 3PL connector or read/write data feed is established by hiring a planner.

Not confirmed. No standard ERP connector or read/write data feed is established by hiring a planner.

Not confirmed. No standard CSV connector or read/write data feed is established by hiring a planner.

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 should retain or explicitly delegate cash and purchase authority, while forecast sign-off can run through cross-functional S&OP reviews.¹²

In the Scunthorpe example the planner identifies supply and capacity gaps and recommends mitigation with business counterparts.¹²

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. Recruitment lead time and time to a first reviewed forecast were not established.

The brand should agree scope, data and system access, commercial counterparts, approval authority, handover and cover before the assignment starts.¹²

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.

Not confirmed. Post-assignment support, replacement cover and continuity guarantees must be agreed; no universal support package was verified.

Not confirmed. There is no single office to verify for this generic hiring approach; check the chosen recruiter, contractor and work location.

Not confirmed. The contracting legal entity is unknown until an employer, recruiter or contractor is selected.

Not confirmed. There are no standard UK support hours for this approach; working hours and cover depend on the assignment.

Not confirmed. No named UK client engagement or delivered outcome was verified for a selected interim planner.

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. A general salary, day rate and all-in hiring price remain unknown; the current examples publish no numeric rate.

For a day-rate assignment, enter the agreed rate and billable days, then add only charges that apply under the actual contract.¹⁴

A fixed-term employee needs a separate salary-and-employer-cost scenario, not automatic treatment as a supplier day-rate invoice.¹³

For agency staff, establish what the agency invoice covers before adding payroll-related charges.¹⁶

For work through a contractor’s intermediary, off-payroll responsibilities depend on the client and contract.¹⁷

Where off-payroll rules apply, employer National Insurance and any applicable Apprenticeship Levy sit with the deemed employer.¹⁷

For a standard category A employee, the 2026/27 employer National Insurance table shows a 15% secondary contribution rate above the applicable threshold.¹⁸

The 2026/27 standard secondary threshold is £5,000 per year, £417 per month or £96 per week.¹⁸

The published minimum employer contribution in the automatic-enrolment table is 3%, subject to scheme and worker eligibility rules.¹⁹

In most automatic-enrolment schemes, contributions use earnings between £6,240 and £50,270 a year before tax.¹⁹

Employment Allowance for 2026/27 is up to £10,500 for eligible employers; it is not a separate allowance per interim hire.¹⁸

Not confirmed. No universal minimum fee, number of days or engagement length was established.

Not confirmed. Recruitment, onboarding and agency fees were not quantified; they are not assumed to be zero.

Not confirmed. No standard free trial or trial-period commercial terms were verified for this hiring approach.

One verified demand-planner role is advertised as a 12–18 month fixed-term contract.¹²

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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