Antevon vs OrderWise: stock forecasting software or a two-week 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

Orderwise is a stock-focused ERP and warehouse/inventory software suite.¹⁵

Orderwise supplies implementation as a collaborative project with configuration, training and testing.²⁴

Not confirmed. An ongoing provider-operated demand-planning or PO-execution service was not established.

Orderwise Cloud is software delivered as a service, with support and licensing in the monthly payment.¹²

Orderwise has an active public software offer, including Orderwise Cloud.¹²

Orderwise is part of Forterro.¹⁴

OrderWise is an alternative capitalisation used in the vendor’s own copy.¹³

Orderwise 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

Orderwise targets mid-market wholesalers, distributors and trade-focused retailers.¹⁶

Orderwise also markets its ERP to growing small businesses with stock-centric operations.¹⁷

Orderwise serves wholesale, trade retail and stock-sensitive sectors including healthcare and nutritional products.¹⁴

Orderwise addresses businesses selling through ecommerce, trade accounts, stores and bulk repeat orders.¹⁸

Orderwise explicitly serves UK stock-centric businesses.¹⁵

Orderwise fits a team ready to operate software and take part in implementation and training.¹⁹

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

Data setup is collaborative, and users can define and test mappings for CSV and Excel sales-order imports.²⁷

Orderwise users can choose forecasting methods and maintain stock and history-adjustment parameters.²⁰

Orderwise includes implementation resources in the proposal; a full project team is described as standard.¹³

Initial training is part of the overall package, while further training can be purchased.¹⁹

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.

Orderwise lets users select a forecasting method for each variant at each stock location.²⁰

Not confirmed. A numeric forward forecast horizon and forecast time buckets were 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.

Orderwise purchase planning uses the business’s sales and sales-order data across its channels.²²

Not confirmed. Named beauty-retailer consumer sell-through feeds and forecasts from those feeds were not established.

Orderwise advertises EDI transactions connected to the stock system.¹⁸

Not confirmed. Specific Boots, Sephora UK, Space NK and other beauty-retailer EDI message support was not established.

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

Orderwise advertises planning around promotions and seasonality with forecasting and stock profiles.²¹

Not confirmed. A specific new-product launch forecasting workflow 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

Orderwise offers rule-based replenishment and can automatically trigger purchase orders.²¹

Orderwise advertises automated purchase-order generation aligned with forecast demand.²²

Not confirmed. The party responsible for approving, sending and following up each purchase order was not established.

Orderwise records supplier minimum order quantities and shows them in purchase planning.²⁰

Orderwise purchasing takes supplier lead times into account.²³

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. Hard cash-budget-constrained purchase optimisation was not established.²²

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

Orderwise supports batch, expiry-date and recall tracking.¹⁸

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.

Orderwise advertises Shopify integration.¹⁸

The Orderwise connection matrix lists inbound net sales orders for Shopify.²⁸

The Orderwise connection matrix lists despatch tracking URL export for Shopify.²⁸

The Orderwise connection matrix marks Shopify as handling stock locations.²⁸

Orderwise advertises Amazon marketplace integration for stock control and order processing.²⁹

Orderwise advertises connections to third-party logistics partners.²⁹

Orderwise lists integration with the Access Dimensions accounting system.²⁹

Orderwise documents automated sales-order imports from CSV and Excel using custom mappings.²⁷

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. Contractual ownership of forecast sign-off and cash or purchase approval was not established.

Import validation flags errors so they can be corrected before an ecommerce import session is set up.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. A numeric time to a first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.²⁴

Orderwise implementation requires scope alignment, process mapping, data preparation, configuration and staff training.²⁴

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.

Orderwise provides UK-based software support and maintenance.²⁵

Optional Flex-Services provides consultancy, customisation and configuration through an annual service-points subscription.²⁶

Orderwise publishes a UK office/contact address in Saxilby, Lincoln.¹⁴

Companies House lists Forterro UK Orderwise Limited, company 04633298, as active.³⁰

Not confirmed. Specific staffed UK support hours and weekend or bank-holiday coverage were not established.

Orderwise says it serves more than 1,000 UK companies.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

Orderwise pricing requires a tailored proposal based on the services needed.¹³

Orderwise Cloud describes monthly payments for a software-and-services annual subscription.¹²

Not confirmed. Minimum subscription spend, users and other commercial minimums were not established.

Not confirmed. A numeric setup, migration, training or implementation fee was not established.¹³

Not confirmed. A self-service free-trial duration and trial terms were not established.

Orderwise Cloud is described as an annual subscription; detailed renewal and cancellation terms were not established.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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