# Antevon vs SAP Integrated Business Planning: cloud planning software or a fixed-fee forecast audit

Canonical: https://www.antevon.com/compare/sap-ibp

Checked against SAP Integrated Business Planning’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 22 Oct 2026.

## The short answer

SAP Integrated Business Planning is forecasting software, while Antevon delivers a fixed-fee audit [3, 13, 19]. Pick the software for supply planning linked to your business system, with internal planners and an implementation team [20]. Pick the audit if nobody owns your forecast full-time [5].

## Who each one fits

Consider SAP Integrated Business Planning if you can assign project managers, system designers, main system users and people managing the change [15].

Antevon's audit is for independent UK and EU beauty and skincare brands selling through retailers, or preparing to [3, 4].

## When SAP Integrated Business Planning is the better choice

- If your planners need daily forecasts, SAP Integrated Business Planning produces them by product, location and customer [18].
- If you are launching a product, SAP Integrated Business Planning can use another product's history to forecast it [21].

## When Antevon is the better choice

- If you need stock decisions, the audit recommends what to buy, move, hold or cut, with the money impact [3].
- If you are weighing a retailer promotion, the audit compares its money outcome with not running it [6].

## How they differ

In SAP Integrated Business Planning, assigned users can investigate alerts and create or delegate cases to resolve them [27]. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call [5].

Antevon's forecast gives a number for each product, retailer and month [5].

SAP Integrated Business Planning can receive data from SAP ECC business systems [28]. It also supports imports from private-cloud and on-premise SAP S/4HANA business systems [28]. Confirm licensing and infrastructure requirements for that connection [28]. For Antevon's audit, you supply a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions [5].

SAP Integrated Business Planning's cloud subscription includes SAP Enterprise Support at no additional cost [25].

## Side by side

Rows are the questions UK beauty brands ask us. Each line is a fact from the company’s own public pages. Check this comparison: sources and dates below.

### What it is

- Antevon: Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project. [3]
- Antevon: The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit. [3]
- Antevon: Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.
- Antevon: The public trading name is Antevon. [1]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP belongs in the enterprise planning category, rather than being a managed demand desk. [15]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP is cloud planning software, not an evidenced done-for-you demand desk. [13]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP is an SAP group product; SAP SE identifies SAP product marks as its trade marks. [14]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP is the documented abbreviation for SAP Integrated Business Planning. [13]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP also uses the family name SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain. [14]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: The official product name is SAP Integrated Business Planning. [12]

### Who it is for

- Antevon: The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue. [4]
- Antevon: Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so. [3]
- Antevon: The stated service audience is in the UK and EU. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast. [5]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. A SAP IBP revenue band, minimum catalogue size and location limit were not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Consumer products are an evidenced use case in SAP’s published Upfield story. [16]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP demand planning can use POS data, distributor withdrawals, orders and shipments. [17]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP’s documented implementation involves project managers, solution architects, key users and change-management owners. [15]

### Who builds the forecast

- Antevon: The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.
- Antevon: On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.
- Antevon: The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login. [5]
- Antevon: Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge. [5]
- Antevon: The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep. [5]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: The customer and implementation team must plan data work and testing; SAP provides tools to import and clean history. [26]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Users can maintain alert criteria; the documented workflow is not a promise of fully outsourced parameter upkeep. [27]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the SAP IBP subscription price was not established.

### What the forecast covers

- Antevon: The forecast is by product, retailer and month. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Demand sensing runs at product-location-customer level and produces daily demand. [18]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP describes demand sensing as a short-term forecast over four to eight weeks. [18]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Statistical forecasting supports mid- to long-term demand planning over months to years, with forecast periods set in the model. [19]

### Retailers and sell-through

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.
- Antevon: The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it. [7]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP can use both upstream order/shipment signals and downstream POS signals in short-term demand planning. [17]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. Named retailer EDI feeds, objects and read/write directions for SAP IBP were not established.

### Promotions and launches

- Antevon: The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range. [3]
- Antevon: The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds. [6]
- Antevon: 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.
- Antevon: Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history. [3]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: New-product forecasts can use reference-product history and phase-in or phase-out dates and curves. [21]

### Orders to suppliers

- Antevon: The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact. [3]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.
- Antevon: Purchase orders are inputs to the audit. [3]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step. [4]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.
- Antevon: The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast. [7]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Order-based supply planning creates planned orders, stock-transfer requisitions or purchase requisitions. [20]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: The documented supply run plans purchase requisitions and treats existing purchase orders as fixed inputs that it does not change. [20]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. Who approves, issues and sends supplier purchase orders was not established for a SAP IBP package.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Time-series supply planning supports minimum production and transport lot sizes and quantity rounding, with algorithm-specific limits. [22]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Advanced inventory optimisation uses lead times and their uncertainty, including production, supplier and transport lead times. [23]

### Cash

- Antevon: Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Nothing recorded yet.

### Batches and shelf life

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP documents remaining-shelf-life handling and batch numbers on order-based purchase requisitions when the relevant data and functions are enabled. [24]

### What it connects to

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. A packaged SAP IBP Shopify connector was not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. A SAP IBP Amazon marketplace connector was not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. A named SAP IBP 3PL connector, supported data objects and read/write scope were not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP documents ERP integration with SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA through Real-Time Integration and other model-specific tools. [28]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: The SAP IBP Web UI supports CSV data import through staging into application tables. [13]

### What your team still does

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.
- Antevon: The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: The documented process calls for business teams to agree the forecast; purchase and cash-approval authority is not established. [12]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Assigned users analyse alerts and can create or delegate cases to resolve issues. [27]

### Getting started

- Antevon: The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment. [3]
- Antevon: The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14. [3]
- Antevon: The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar. [3]
- Antevon: The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions. [5]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. No comparable time from agreed data readiness to a reviewed, decision-ready SAP IBP forecast was established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Implementation needs integration design and testing, and SAP says partner support is required to define data-integration scenarios. [26]

### Support and UK presence

- Antevon: Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast. [5]
- Antevon: The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14. [5]
- Antevon: The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.
- Antevon: Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP’s IBP onboarding course says SAP Enterprise Support is included at no additional cost with an SAP cloud subscription. [25]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP lists its UK head office at Clockhouse Place, Middlesex. [29]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP’s UK News privacy statement identifies SAP UK Limited at a UK address. [30]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: The Customer Interaction Center offers non-product assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year. [31]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. A current, specifically UK-based SAP IBP customer deployment was not verified.

### How it is charged

- Antevon: Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call. [8]
- Antevon: Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour. [10]
- Antevon: The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed. [8]
- Antevon: Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery. [8]
- Antevon: Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge. [10]
- Antevon: The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count. [10]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.
- Antevon: There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.
- Antevon: The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms. [2]
- Antevon: The monthly desk is optional after the audit. [10]
- Antevon: The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription. [10]
- Antevon: The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice. [8]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. The current public-pricing status is unknown because pricing pages were unreadable.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: SAP IBP is sold in a cloud-subscription context; the billable metric was not established. [25]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. SAP IBP minimum spend, licence quantities and minimum user count were not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. SAP IBP implementation, setup and integration fees were not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. A current SAP IBP trial duration and trial terms were not established.
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Not confirmed. SAP IBP commitment length, renewal and cancellation terms were not established.

### Anything else

- Antevon: Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request. [11]
- SAP Integrated Business Planning: Nothing recorded yet.

Words used in the table:

- SKU: one product in one size or shade
- MOQ: the smallest order a supplier accepts
- PO: a purchase order, your order to a supplier
- Lead time: how long a supplier takes to deliver
- Sell-through: what shoppers bought at the retailer
- EDI: the data link large retailers use for orders and sales
- GMV: total sales through your online store
- BOM: the list of parts that go into a product
- 3PL: a warehouse company that stores and ships for you
- ERP: a business system for stock, orders and accounts

## Published prices

Each price is the company’s own list price, as its page shows it, with the date we checked it. We do not estimate a price a company does not publish.

### SAP Integrated Business Planning

- Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).
- Not confirmed. A current SAP IBP plan price, currency, billing period and tax basis were not established.

### Antevon

- The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated. [8] Checked 21 Oct 2026.
- The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated. [9] Checked 21 Oct 2026.

## Switching or using both

If you already use SAP Integrated Business Planning, consider Antevon's retailer-level Excel files alongside it [5, 10]. Agree exports, how the data matches, and who owns each decision before scoping the separate work [10].

## Questions people ask

### Can SAP Integrated Business Planning create requests to buy stock?

SAP Integrated Business Planning creates internal requests to buy stock when planning supply from individual orders [20]. That planning run leaves existing orders to suppliers unchanged [20].

### When does the audit start?

Antevon's two-week audit starts when your data arrives, not when you pay [3]. Send 12 to 24 months of sales, orders to suppliers, your retailer list and your promotion calendar [3].

### Do I have to keep paying after the audit?

Antevon's files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription [5]. The optional monthly service refreshes the forecast and maintains the record of decisions [5]. It has rolling 30-day notice [8].

## Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about SAP Integrated Business Planning comes from a public page, read on the date shown. Antevon's own column follows the same rule.

We read these pages on 22 Oct 2026, unless a line says otherwise.

1. Brand kit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/brand (read 21 Oct 2026)
2. Terms · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/terms (read 21 Oct 2026)
3. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit (read 21 Oct 2026)
4. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt (read 21 Oct 2026)
5. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/ (read 21 Oct 2026)
6. What a November promotion has to sell to pay back · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/november-promotion-payback (read 21 Oct 2026)
7. Only 2 left, and the factory needs four weeks · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/low-stock-alert-supplier-order-date (read 21 Oct 2026)
8. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit (read 21 Oct 2026)
9. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt (read 21 Oct 2026)
10. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/ (read 21 Oct 2026)
11. Privacy · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/privacy (read 21 Oct 2026)
12. SAP Integrated Business Planning I Demand Planning, https://www.sap.com/uk/products/scm/integrated-business-planning/features/demand-planning.html
13. Importing Data Using the SAP IBP Web UI, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-the-core-functions-in-sap-ibp/importing-data-using-the-sap-ibp-web-ui_a7d053b5-4c9b-4e89-996b-b76558f87ce1
14. SAP to Provide Next-Generation Industrial Planning for Airbus | SAP News Center, https://news.sap.com/2023/11/sap-to-provide-next-generation-industrial-planning-for-airbus/
15. SAP Integrated Business Planning, https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/ibp.html
16. Upfield Maximizes Supply Chain Transparency | SAP News Center, https://news.sap.com/2022/11/upfield-maximizes-supply-chain-transparency/
17. Overview of Demand Planning, https://learning.sap.com/courses/discovering-sap-ibp-harmonized-planning-area/overview-of-demand-planning
18. Introducing Demand Sensing, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-sap-ibp-for-demand/introduction-to-demand-sensing_e8fa54aa-2e8c-4a0d-8bf6-2055b09e8669
19. Using Forecast Profiles, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-sap-ibp-for-demand/using-forecast-profiles_d1dd18bb-f7e3-4428-9777-77810f1eb315
20. Exploring Business Coverage and Integration Overview of SAP IBP,, https://learning.sap.com/courses/discovering-response-supply-for-sap-ibp-order-based-planning/exploring-business-coverage-and-integration-overview-of-sap-ibp-advanced-supply-order-based-planning_e71ad138-6623-4276-9e9c-d2cfe15225af
21. Using Phase-In and Phase-Out Profiles, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-sap-ibp-for-demand/using-phase-in-and-phase-out-profiles_e32b1c21-32e2-4a34-ae9e-573cc32e4511
22. Modeling Lot Size, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-the-main-features-in-infinite-time-series-network-planning/modeling-lot-size_eb3694d3-5263-4cda-94f6-5fb7b9699fab
23. Supply Lead Time Calculation, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-sap-ibp-for-inventory-planning-and-optimization/supply-lead-time-calculation_abe74a3a-ed8b-45f2-912b-5aca007b214b
24. SAP IBP for Response and Supply, https://learning.sap.com/courses/sap-integrated-business-planning-for-supply-chain/sap-ibp-for-response-and-supply_de3aff28-fb49-4c4a-b48e-a113c5551052
25. Exploring SAP Enterprise Support, https://learning.sap.com/courses/cloud-onboarding-for-sap-ibp/exploring-sap-enterprise-support
26. Guiding Your Implementation, https://learning.sap.com/courses/cloud-onboarding-for-sap-ibp/guiding-your-implementation
27. Setting up Alerts for Forecast Accuracy, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-sap-ibp-for-demand/setting-up-alerts-for-forecast-accuracy_a5bfc716-ef52-4ca3-aa27-24d6af2ab78c
28. Identifying Data Import Options, https://learning.sap.com/courses/mastering-the-core-functions-in-sap-ibp/identifying-data-import-options_babff004-46c0-40df-9cd7-996fc1e81dc1
29. SAP Company Information: UK & Ireland | About SAP, https://www.sap.com/uk/about.html
30. Privacy - SAP UK News Center, https://news.sap.com/uk/privacy/
31. Getting SAP Support, https://learning.sap.com/courses/cloud-onboarding-for-sap-ibp/getting-sap-support_db9d3ca0-1f46-490e-8f34-30765f706752

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