Antevon vs RELEX Solutions: planning 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

RELEX is a supply-chain and retail planning platform covering retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers.¹³

RELEX supplies planning software.¹⁵

RELEX has implementation and consulting partner services.²⁴

RELEX currently markets its planning software and invites demo requests.¹⁵

RELEX Solutions is identified with Retail Logistics Excellence – RELEX Oy.¹⁴

Not confirmed. The complete current equity ownership and control percentages were not established.

The vendor also uses the short name RELEX.¹³

The official vendor name is RELEX Solutions.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 homepage describes enterprise implementations, without establishing a revenue eligibility band.¹²

RELEX explicitly targets health, beauty and hygiene consumer brands.¹⁶

RELEX addresses both omnichannel and in-store health, beauty and pharmacy retail planning.¹⁷

RELEX describes a global business operating in multiple countries.¹³

A business with planning staff and shared approval workflows is an evidenced fit.¹⁸

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

RELEX offers managed data transformation and configuration once the customer provides data-source access.²⁸

RELEX automatically optimizes most replenishment parameters, while users can handle exceptions through rules or manual settings.²⁰

Not confirmed. Whether implementation, partner work or integration services are included in a quoted licence fee 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 Planning & Sensing generates SKU-customer-day forecasts with flexible aggregation.¹⁹

Forecasting & Replenishment typically generates product-store-day forecasts.²⁰

The manufacturer Demand Planning & Sensing overview describes a 24-month forecast horizon.¹⁹

Forecasting & Replenishment describes a configurable horizon, typically six months for replenishment and usually up to 36 months for longer planning.²⁰

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.

Retail connected planning can use retailer POS and inventory data to forecast consumer sales rather than only manufacturer orders.²³

Not confirmed. A named UK retailer EDI connector, its data objects, read/write direction and commercial scope were 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

RELEX offers promotion analysis, scenario testing and centralized promotion planning.²¹

RELEX supports product introductions and ramp-downs using lifecycle controls and reference products.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

RELEX generates daily order proposals using forecasts, inventory, open orders and replenishment constraints.²⁰

Order proposals can be approved in RELEX or sent to the customer backend for review or conversion into purchase orders.²⁰

Actual purchase orders are converted in the customer backend after RELEX proposals, with review or automation options.²⁰

RELEX documents minimum order quantities among constrained planning inputs.¹⁹

Replenishment calculations account for lead times, batch sizes and delivery schedules.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 planning can determine order cycles while respecting open-to-buy budgets.²²

Not confirmed. Bank-balance-driven purchasing constraints and a brand cash-flow forecast were not established.

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

Retail connected planning includes shelf-life-aware replenishment for perishable products.²³

Demand Planning & Sensing supports multiple picking units or batch sizes per product.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Cosmetic lot-level traceability and FEFO execution were 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 Shopify connector, its data objects, read/write direction and commercial scope were not established.

Not confirmed. A Amazon marketplace connector, its data objects, read/write direction and commercial scope were not established.

Not confirmed. A named external 3PL connector, its data objects, read/write direction and commercial scope were not established.

RELEX documents file-based and API-based integration with major ERP environments.²⁸

The pre-built SAP connector reads master and transactional data and writes order proposals and forecasts back to supported SAP editions.²⁸

Demand Planning & Sensing can export forecasts as CSV, Excel or JSON, manually or on a schedule.¹⁹

Not confirmed. A specific public CSV import schema, data-object coverage and plan entitlement were 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.

Customer teams can review, adjust and annotate forecasts, with role-based access and consensus-plan workflows.¹⁹

RELEX describes planners focusing on exceptions, performance analysis and continuous improvement after routine replenishment is automated.¹⁸

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 generally applicable time from data readiness to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

The integration page reports one SAP implementation reaching production data flows five weeks after SAP access.²⁸

Setup requires access to relevant source data, and the documented SAP connector requires middleware.²⁸

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.

RELEX advertises dedicated post-go-live teams and an online training academy.²⁵

The public support page provides email and regional phone contacts for existing customers.²⁶

The official German contact page lists London and Stoke-on-Trent offices.²⁹

The current recruiting privacy notice lists RELEX Limited for London and RELEX Solutions UK Limited for Stoke.³⁰

Not confirmed. Staffed UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time guarantees were not established.

A March 2026 RELEX release states M&S Food is using forecasting and replenishment.³¹

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. Current public pricing policy and a first-party quote-only statement were not established.

RELEX reports subscription revenue, but a current charging unit or invoice schedule was not established.²⁷

Not confirmed. A current minimum licence spend, seat count, SKU count or location commitment was not established.

Not confirmed. The amount and mandatory or optional status of setup, implementation and integration fees were not established.

Not confirmed. A current free trial offer, length and conditions were not established.

Not confirmed. Contract duration, renewal, cancellation, payment schedule and VAT treatment were not established.

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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