Antevon vs Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning: planning software 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

This is an enterprise planning software option, not an outsourced demand desk.¹²

Oracle supplies a cloud planning platform used by planning teams.¹²

Oracle is the vendor group behind the offer.¹³

Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Planning is the current product name.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. A specific customer revenue band or catalogue-size threshold was not established.

Oracle describes planning requirements across manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and other sectors.¹²

The planning family supports collaboration with suppliers, distributors and contract manufacturers.¹²

Oracle markets the offer in the UK and documents a UK distributor using supply and demand forecasting.¹⁴

Core users are specialist planners, S&OP leaders, schedulers, buyer planners and collaboration users.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

Your team or implementation partner must prepare and maintain the inputs for the configured collection process.²⁵

Your team or implementation partner configures planning attributes and policies, alongside automated planning functions.²¹

Not confirmed. Whether the selected subscription includes implementation services 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.

Demand Management documents forecasts at item and organization combinations.¹⁵

Demand plans can retain key-customer data at customer-site level.¹⁶

The forecasting time level is configurable at the plan’s time level or a higher level.¹⁶

The forecast horizon is driven by the plan horizon and forecasting time level.¹⁶

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.

Demand Management can use historical shipments, bookings or both.¹⁵

Replenishment Planning documents consumption/POS-based forecasting and external consumption imports.²³

Not confirmed. A connection covering named UK retailers and their sell-through data was not verified.²⁷

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. Retailer-promotion-specific forecasting and profit-read scope was not established.¹⁹

New-product forecasting can copy a similar product’s history with a factor or use manually entered history and forecast overrides.²⁰

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

Demand Management includes demand- or consumption-driven replenishment across stocking locations.¹⁷

Buyer Planning can release a replenishment plan to generate purchase orders in Oracle Procurement.¹⁸

The planning team governs release to Procurement; the configured process can generate purchase orders.¹⁸

Supply Planning can increase planned orders to a configured minimum order quantity.²¹

Supply Planning uses configured lead times for make, buy and transfer planning.²¹

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. A hard cash-budget constraint on proposed purchases was not established.

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

Unconstrained Supply Planning documents expired-lot exceptions and excludes unused lots after their expiry date.²²

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 direct Shopify-to-Supply-Chain-Planning connector was not verified.²⁶

Not confirmed. An Amazon marketplace connection to Supply Chain Planning was not verified.

Not confirmed. Direct connections between named 3PLs and Supply Chain Planning were not verified.²⁸

Planning includes a native Oracle Fusion source system for data collection.²⁹

Legacy and third-party system data can be loaded into the Planning repository through flat-file import.²⁵

Planning supports CSV files generated from Excel templates and uploaded as a ZIP into its data repository.³⁰

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.

Planner accountability and business-judgment review remain with the customer’s planning team.¹²

Oracle surfaces issues and recommendations while planners review exceptions needing business judgment.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. A time to the first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

Implementation depends on the modules, data, roles, rules, policies, exception process and system connections in scope.¹²

Oracle’s demand-plan guide recommends at least twelve months of history and describes eighteen to thirty-six months as best practice.¹⁶

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.

Oracle’s cloud policy provides technical service-request assistance around the clock and non-technical assistance during local business hours.²⁴

Oracle lists a Reading office at Thames Valley Park.³¹

Oracle names Oracle Corporation UK Ltd. on its UK office page.³¹

The cloud policy states 24x7x365 technical service-request assistance and non-technical help from 08:00 to 17:00 local country time.²⁴

Oracle documents UK distributor Wolseley using automated supply and demand forecasting.¹⁴

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 planning implementation or setup fee for the required scope was not established.

Not confirmed. A Supply Chain Planning trial duration and trial terms were not established.

Oracle’s SCM list states a standard three-year subscription term.¹³

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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