Antevon vs OMP / Unison Planning: planning software or a fixed-fee 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

OMP offers an integrated supply-chain planning platform, rather than only a forecasting app.¹⁶

OMP advertises implementation projects covering readiness, design, configuration, testing and go-live.²³

Not confirmed. A recurring service in which OMP’s team owns the brand’s day-to-day forecast and purchase execution was not verified.

Unison Express combines planning software with a standardised implementation approach.¹²

Unison Planning is offered as a SaaS supply-chain planning platform.²⁴

OMP currently presents Unison Planning and Unison Express as available planning offerings.¹²

The vendor lists OM Partners NV as its Belgian head-office company.¹⁴

Ackermans & van Haaren’s current portfolio page reports a 20.01% beneficial interest in OMP.¹⁵

Not confirmed. The complete current shareholder breakdown and controlling-owner position were not verified.

OM Partners NV is the legal supplier name used in OMP’s public terms.¹³

OMP supplies the Unison Planning supply-chain planning platform.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 public minimum or maximum customer revenue, SKU count or seat count was verified.

Unison Express is positioned for teams that have outgrown spreadsheets but do not want a multi-year enterprise implementation.¹²

OMP names consumer goods, life sciences, chemicals, metals, paper, plastics and packaging, building products and tires among its industries.¹⁷

OMP publishes a cosmetics planning case at Coty’s Ashford plant in England.¹⁸

OMP says Unison Planning supports demand and supply planning across sales channels, including e-commerce.¹⁹

OMP Cloud is advertised with worldwide access on Microsoft Azure.²⁰

OMP positions its tools around a team working from a common demand, supply and inventory plan.¹²

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

OMP configures SAP mapping, while users can resolve invalid data in Unison Planning or SAP.²⁶

Data Genie tracks models and can update master data, while asking users for business information when model fit slips.²⁸

Unison Express combines software with standardised implementation, but no public fee split is stated.¹²

Not confirmed. Whether implementation fees are included in a Unison Planning software quote was not verified.

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.

OMP documents flexible aggregation by country, packaging size, brand, sales channel and packaging-line group.¹⁹

OMP describes demand forecasting from short to long term, including use cases beyond one year.²¹

OMP says planning time horizons can be configured in days, weeks, months and quarters.¹⁹

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.

OMP documents point-of-sale data as a short-term forecast input, separately from sales-order visibility.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Named UK-retailer or EDI-provider integrations and their read/write data objects were not verified.

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

OMP documents collaborative promotion planning using prior promotions and scenarios that assess supply-chain profitability.¹⁹

OMP documents integrated product phase-in and phase-out planning across finished goods and raw materials.¹⁹

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

OMP documents distribution and inventory deployment planning, including fair-share, margin-based and DDMRP approaches.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Creation, sending and supplier execution of purchase orders were not verified from the public pages read.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves, sends and follows up the brand’s purchase orders was not verified.

Not confirmed. Supplier minimum-order quantity and order-multiple handling were not specifically verified.

OMP says inventory targets can account for demand and supply lead-time variability.¹⁹

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.

OMP says inventory optimisation can work within a node-level financial limit, such as a capped inventory value at a distribution centre.²²

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

OMP documents minimum remaining shelf-life constraints at material, distribution-centre and customer levels.¹⁹

OMP documents bulk batch splitting and batch balancing to align bulk manufacturing with finished-goods production.¹⁹

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 named Shopify connector, its data objects and read/write behaviour were not verified.

Not confirmed. A named Amazon marketplace connector, its data objects and read/write behaviour were not verified.

Not confirmed. A named 3PL connector, its data objects and read/write behaviour were not verified.

OMP documents a certified bi-directional integration with SAP S/4HANA and ECC.²⁸

OMP documents REST interfaces for data exchange, including an API that sends data to Unison Planning.²⁶

Not confirmed. CSV import/export format, workflow and package eligibility were not verified.

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. The boundary for forecast approval, cash approval and purchasing authority was not verified.

OMP describes planners reviewing and overriding generated proposals through exception-based controls.²⁷

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 elapsed time to a first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was verified for either Unison Planning or Unison Express.

OMP checks master data, project-team and user readiness before configuration, testing and a real-data dry run.²³

For SAP integration, the customer needs the OMP namespace installed and SAP configuration changes, while OMP configures integration and mapping.²⁶

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.

OMP offers support options from regional business hours to global 24/7, plus maintenance and upgrade services.²⁵

Not confirmed. A current OMP UK office was not verified.

Not confirmed. A UK-incorporated contracting entity was not verified.

Not confirmed. UK-specific support hours, timezone, holiday cover and SLA entitlement were not verified.

OMP’s 2019 case describes planning and scheduling work for Coty’s Ashford plant in England.¹⁸

OMP’s 2022 announcement reports S&OP, operational planning and scheduling deployed across Warburtons’ UK sites.²⁹

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

OMP’s public material directs buyers to discuss scope, timeline and cost before committing; no software price amount was verified.¹²

OMP describes separately licensed software with customer- and deployment-specific negotiated terms.¹³

Not confirmed. No minimum spend, seat commitment or customer-size threshold was verified.

Not confirmed. No implementation or setup fee amount or fee-inclusion rule was verified.

Not confirmed. No public trial duration, price or eligibility was verified.

Not confirmed. No standard contract duration, renewal or cancellation terms were verified.

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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