Antevon vs Paul Trudgian: supply-chain consultancy 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

PTL Co is a supply-chain, logistics and warehousing consultancy.¹²

PTL Co offers consultancy from initial assessment through implementation and delivery.¹²

It also offers temporary interim supply-chain and logistics leadership.²¹

PTL Co currently advertises supply-chain consultancy services and its legal entity is listed as active.¹³

The legal operator is Paul Trudgian Limited, company 09283118.¹⁴

Companies House lists Mr Paul Roger Trudgian as an active person with significant control.¹⁵

Companies House lists Mrs Tamsin Sarah Trudgian as an active person with significant control.¹⁵

PTL Co, Paul Trudgian Ltd and Paul Trudgian Limited identify the same consultancy.¹³

Paul Trudgian Ltd now trades as PTL Co.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

The team describes work with SMEs, multinationals and government organisations; a numeric revenue band is not established.¹⁶

The team describes cross-sector experience including retail and food.¹⁶

A published warehouse-outsourcing example covers D2C and major-retailer wholesale accounts.¹³

PTL Co says it supports organisations in the UK, Europe and US.¹³

PTL Co is a plausible fit for a business that can supply cross-functional input while building or improving planning.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

Consultants build and cleanse the data profile; client system extracts remain part of the process.²⁰

Not confirmed. Ongoing ownership of replenishment parameters after consultancy handover is not established.

Implementation support is offered, but inclusion in a standard consultancy fee is not established.¹⁸

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.

Its described S&OP approach uses aggregate product-family demand planning.¹⁸

A published industrial-manufacturer example describes SKU-level planning.¹⁹

Its S&OP methodology describes a horizon usually of at least 18 rolling months.¹⁸

A published industrial-manufacturer example describes a 12-month SKU-level planning horizon.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.

Not confirmed. A defined retailer sell-in versus consumer sell-through forecasting workflow is not established.

Not confirmed. A documented retailer/EDI data connector, transfer method and read/write scope are 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

Its forecasting process can incorporate marketing promotions.¹⁷

Its S&OP approach reviews new-product introductions and updates demand for new-product impacts.¹⁸

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

PTL Co models cycle stock, safety stock and reorder points for replenishment policy.²⁰

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, sending and ongoing execution are not established for the planning consultancy package.

Not confirmed. Responsibility for creating or sending purchase orders is not established.

Its inventory analysis can consider minimum order quantities.²⁰

Its inventory modelling uses planned and actual lead times and supply variations.²⁰

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.

Inventory targets can account for working-capital restrictions.²⁰

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

Not confirmed. Batch-level expiry, FEFO and shelf-life planning are not established.

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 documented Shopify data connector, transfer method and read/write scope are not established.

Not confirmed. A documented Amazon data connector, transfer method and read/write scope are not established.

Not confirmed. A documented 3PL data connector, transfer method and read/write scope are not established.

Not confirmed. A documented ERP/MRP data connector, transfer method and read/write scope are not established.

Not confirmed. A documented CSV data connector, transfer method and read/write scope are not established.

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.

In the described S&OP process, the company executive team reviews plans and authorises additional costs.¹⁸

Not confirmed. An ongoing forecast-exception owner and escalation cadence are not established.

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 comparable elapsed time to a first reviewed forecast is established.

Demand forecasting calls for input from sales, supply chain, finance and production.¹⁷

Inventory modelling calls for at least a 12-month transaction and forecast-data profile.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.

Consultants can support system selection and process implementation where ERP/MRP integration is required.¹⁷

Its described forecasting approach includes a tool enabling the client to continue independently.¹⁷

Through an interim manager, PTL Co says it can remain engaged and accountable for agreed objectives.²¹

The contact page identifies a Birmingham office at Arion Business Centre.²²

Companies House lists Paul Trudgian Limited, 09283118, as an active UK private limited company.²³

Not confirmed. UK support hours, response times and service-level commitments are not established.

PTL Co states that it supports organisations across the UK and internationally.¹³

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. The current public price status of the core consultancy is unresolved; no price amount was established.

An interim placement needs a client-specific day rate in the candidate profile rather than a verified public amount.²¹

Not confirmed. The core consultancy charging basis is not established as a current commercial term.

For interim placements, the candidate profile includes the day rate the client should expect to pay.²¹

Not confirmed. Minimum consultancy spend or commitment is not established.

Not confirmed. A separate setup or onboarding fee is not established.

Not confirmed. A trial entitlement is not established.

Not confirmed. Consultancy term, renewal, cancellation and payment conditions are not established.

The interim service describes placements usually lasting three to six months.²¹

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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