Antevon vs SAP Integrated Business Planning: cloud 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

SAP IBP belongs in the enterprise planning category, rather than being a managed demand desk.¹⁵

SAP IBP is cloud planning software, not an evidenced done-for-you demand desk.¹³

SAP IBP is an SAP group product; SAP SE identifies SAP product marks as its trade marks.¹⁴

SAP IBP is the documented abbreviation for SAP Integrated Business Planning.¹³

SAP also uses the family name SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain.¹⁴

The official product name is SAP Integrated Business Planning.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 SAP IBP revenue band, minimum catalogue size and location limit were not established.

Consumer products are an evidenced use case in SAP’s published Upfield story.¹⁶

SAP IBP demand planning can use POS data, distributor withdrawals, orders and shipments.¹⁷

SAP’s documented implementation involves project managers, solution architects, key users and change-management owners.¹⁵

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

The customer and implementation team must plan data work and testing; SAP provides tools to import and clean history.²⁶

Users can maintain alert criteria; the documented workflow is not a promise of fully outsourced parameter upkeep.²⁷

Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the SAP IBP subscription price 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 sensing runs at product-location-customer level and produces daily demand.¹⁸

SAP describes demand sensing as a short-term forecast over four to eight weeks.¹⁸

Statistical forecasting supports mid- to long-term demand planning over months to years, with forecast periods set in the model.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.

SAP IBP can use both upstream order/shipment signals and downstream POS signals in short-term demand planning.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Named retailer EDI feeds, objects and read/write directions for SAP IBP 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

New-product forecasts can use reference-product history and phase-in or phase-out dates and curves.²¹

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

Order-based supply planning creates planned orders, stock-transfer requisitions or purchase requisitions.²⁰

The documented supply run plans purchase requisitions and treats existing purchase orders as fixed inputs that it does not change.²⁰

Not confirmed. Who approves, issues and sends supplier purchase orders was not established for a SAP IBP package.

Time-series supply planning supports minimum production and transport lot sizes and quantity rounding, with algorithm-specific limits.²²

Advanced inventory optimisation uses lead times and their uncertainty, including production, supplier and transport lead times.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.

Nothing recorded yet.

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

SAP documents remaining-shelf-life handling and batch numbers on order-based purchase requisitions when the relevant data and functions are enabled.²⁴

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 packaged SAP IBP Shopify connector was not established.

Not confirmed. A SAP IBP Amazon marketplace connector was not established.

Not confirmed. A named SAP IBP 3PL connector, supported data objects and read/write scope were not established.

SAP documents ERP integration with SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA through Real-Time Integration and other model-specific tools.²⁸

The SAP IBP Web UI supports CSV data import through staging into application tables.¹³

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.

The documented process calls for business teams to agree the forecast; purchase and cash-approval authority is not established.¹²

Assigned users analyse alerts and can create or delegate cases to resolve issues.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 comparable time from agreed data readiness to a reviewed, decision-ready SAP IBP forecast was established.

Implementation needs integration design and testing, and SAP says partner support is required to define data-integration scenarios.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.

SAP’s IBP onboarding course says SAP Enterprise Support is included at no additional cost with an SAP cloud subscription.²⁵

SAP lists its UK head office at Clockhouse Place, Middlesex.²⁹

SAP’s UK News privacy statement identifies SAP UK Limited at a UK address.³⁰

The Customer Interaction Center offers non-product assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year.³¹

Not confirmed. A current, specifically UK-based SAP IBP customer deployment was not verified.

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-pricing status is unknown because pricing pages were unreadable.

SAP IBP is sold in a cloud-subscription context; the billable metric was not established.²⁵

Not confirmed. SAP IBP minimum spend, licence quantities and minimum user count were not established.

Not confirmed. SAP IBP implementation, setup and integration fees were not established.

Not confirmed. A current SAP IBP trial duration and trial terms were not established.

Not confirmed. SAP IBP commitment length, renewal and cancellation terms 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

Nothing recorded yet.