Antevon vs Katana: planning software or a forecast built for you

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

Katana belongs in the ERP and inventory-management-suite comparison category, with inventory, order and production scope.¹²

Katana is a software platform; Advantage also includes implementation, custom-build maintenance and consultations.¹⁵

Advantage includes scoped implementation and custom integration work alongside the software.¹⁵

Katana currently advertises a Free plan and a custom annual Advantage offer.¹⁵

The public terms name Estonian company Katana Technologies OÜ as the legal provider.¹⁴

The Shopify listing uses the product name Katana Cloud Inventory.¹³

Katana is inventory-management software for product businesses.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

Katana describes Advantage as for businesses of any size seeking a personalized setup.¹⁵

Katana lists cosmetics among its supported industry targets.¹²

Katana targets brands selling through Shopify, Amazon, wholesale and retail.¹²

Katana publishes a UK customer example rather than merely a UK-targeted landing page.¹⁶

Katana’s documented planning workflow includes ongoing team review of forecasts and supply parameters.¹⁷

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

Advantage implementation is described as a joint data and workflow setup process.¹⁵

Self-serve setup includes importing product and stock data, materials and recipes where needed.²⁷

The planning guide tells users to keep lead times and minimum order quantities current.¹⁷

Advantage includes a custom build and guided implementation within its agreed annual scope.¹⁵

The Free plan lists self-serve onboarding.¹⁵

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.

The Plan workflow forecasts item demand and shows weekly or monthly stock projections filtered by location or SKU.¹⁸

The replenishment results page shows SKU analysis with inventory totals aggregated across locations.¹⁹

Katana’s beta replenishment feature advertises a 12-month demand forecast per analysed SKU.²⁰

Not confirmed. The maximum forecast horizon in the separate Plan-screen workflow was 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.

The documented retail EDI workflow imports retailer purchase orders and creates Katana sales orders.²⁶

Not confirmed. Named retailers’ consumer sell-through feeds and forecasts by retail account were not established.

SPS Commerce provides a third-party retailer EDI workflow for Katana.²⁶

Not confirmed. Support for each target UK beauty retailer and its exact EDI documents, fees and sell-through objects remains unverified.

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

Users can override weekly or monthly demand forecasts for promotional periods.²³

For a new product without sales history, Katana documents manually entering forecast demand.²³

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

Katana suggests what, how much and when to reorder, with buttons to create purchase or manufacturing orders.²¹

Katana supports manual, automatic and batch purchase-order creation.²²

The documented interface lets the user create a purchase order and send it to a supplier.²⁸

SKU minimum order quantities influence Katana’s replenishment recommendations.²⁴

Users enter SKU lead times in days to determine suggested order-by dates.²⁴

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.

The beta replenishment feature offers order scenarios for the user to choose against budget and risk tolerance.²⁰

Not confirmed. Automatic optimisation against a specified company cash budget was not established.

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

Katana documents batch/lot tracking and optional expiry dates for purchased or manufactured items.²⁵

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.

With sync active, paid Shopify orders import into Katana and stock updates push back to mapped Shopify variants.²⁹

Katana has a direct Shopify integration for orders, stock and fulfilment.²⁹

Katana’s FBA integration imports products, inventory and shipped Amazon orders into Katana.³⁰

Katana’s FBM connection imports open Amazon orders and writes stock, delivery status and tracking back to Amazon.³¹

The ShipBob V2 connection via Extensiv sends Katana sales orders out and imports stock, fulfilment and tracking updates.³²

Advantage advertises custom connections to external ERP, POS, 3PL and supplier systems, scoped and maintained by Katana.¹⁵

Katana exports purchase-order line items to CSV or XLSX.³³

Stock-adjustment line items can be exported as CSV for analysis.³⁴

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 replenishment workflow leaves the budget and risk choice to the user.²⁰

The planning guide tells users to review and adjust forecasts weekly or monthly.¹⁷

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

The homepage separately claims one-day self-serve use and about six weeks to full inventory visibility with guided onboarding.¹²

Not confirmed. Time to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast for the required products and retail accounts was not established.

Katana says most Advantage setups are ready in weeks from kickoff to go-live.¹⁵

The planning setup guide calls for product and material data, suppliers, lead times, minimum order quantities and connected sales channels.¹⁷

The beta replenishment guide uses up to 14 months of sales-order history and recommends at least six months for best results.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.

Advantage advertises assigned implementation and customer-success managers, 24/7 live support and regular inventory consultations.¹⁵

Current Free-plan support is described as an assistant and knowledge base.¹⁵

Not confirmed. A staffed Katana UK office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity was not established.

Advantage advertises 24/7 live support, without establishing a UK-based support team.¹⁵

Katana publishes a UK Naturewall customer case study.¹⁶

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 current website requires a custom quote for Advantage.¹⁵

The Shopify Core starting price is a partial public anchor, not a priceable current Advantage package.¹³

Free has a public zero subscription fee within its stated limits.¹⁵

The general public terms state that fees exclude applicable taxes.¹⁴

Advantage is priced by agreed scope under one annual contract rather than by user seat.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Free-plan location limits, archived-SKU counting and add-on entitlements are inconsistent across the public sources read.

Not confirmed. No numerical minimum Advantage fee was established.

The agreed Advantage price includes custom build and implementation, rather than a separately published setup tariff.¹⁵

Free permits unlimited SKUs for the first 15 days, then requires a 30-SKU catalogue or an upgrade discussion.¹⁵

General published terms describe automatic renewal for paid plans and no billing commitment for Free.¹⁴

General terms require at least 30 days’ notice before an annual commitment ends.¹⁴

The current Advantage offer is an annual contract.¹⁵

Not confirmed. The bespoke Advantage invoice schedule and any special renewal or cancellation terms remain unverified.

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.¹¹

Katana supports bills of materials, subassemblies and production operations alongside inventory.²⁷

Katana advertises warehouse bin locations, picking, packing and receiving workflows.¹⁵