Antevon vs Slimstock / Slim4: planning software or a two-week forecasting 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

Slim4 covers inventory optimisation and supply-chain planning.¹²

Slim4 is available as cloud software or an on-premise deployment.¹²

Slimstock describes a guided implementation project alongside the client team.²¹

Not confirmed. A generally available service in which Slimstock owns the client’s recurring forecast and PO execution was not established.

Current-looking official training listings and an active UK company record support treating Slimstock / Slim4 as an active option.¹⁴

Slimstock identifies Slim4 as its software solution.¹²

Companies House lists Slimstock Europe B.V. as the controller holding at least 75% of Slimstock Limited’s shares.¹³

Not confirmed. The ultimate group owners and precise Slim4 intellectual-property-owning entity were not verified.

Slim4 is the product name associated with Slimstock.¹²

Slimstock provides the Slim4 planning platform.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

Slimstock says it works with companies of every size; it does not give a numeric eligibility threshold in the FAQ extract.¹²

Slimstock lists retail, manufacturing, automotive, food and beverage, fashion and healthcare among its customer industries.¹²

Slim4 is positioned for coordinated physical, digital and wholesale channels.¹⁵

Slimstock says it is headquartered in Deventer and active in 75 countries.¹²

Slim4 fits a team able to own implementation and planning work, supported by Slimstock’s experts and training.¹²

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

Implementation data mapping is a joint activity, with Slimstock describing provider-led system integration and loading.²¹

Not confirmed. Responsibility for recurring extraction, retailer-file mapping, data cleansing and feed repair was not established.

Slimstock trains users to translate their company’s strategy into Slim4 settings.²³

Not confirmed. Whether implementation, integrations and initial training are included in the quoted Slim4 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.

Slim4 advertises forecasting at individual SKU level.¹⁶

Slim4 advertises visibility into demand patterns by customer and channel.¹⁵

Slimstock describes annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily planning intervals; a maximum forward horizon was not specified.¹⁷

Not confirmed. The maximum forward forecast length and limits for a selected Slim4 configuration 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.

Slimstock describes sell-through prediction and replenishment in its retail merchandise-planning offer.²⁰

Not confirmed. A supplier-side model explicitly joining retailer sell-in orders and retailer consumer sell-through feeds was not established for any named UK beauty retailer.

Not confirmed. A named retailer / EDI connector, its data objects, direction, plan eligibility and fees 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

Promotion Manager incorporates uplift into forecasts and separates promotional demand from normal history.¹²

Slim4 can initialise a new-product forecast from initial data or a predecessor’s history.¹²

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

Slim4 advertises automated forecasting, replenishment and exception detection.¹²

Slim4’s supply-planning page describes planning and placing orders for each location.¹⁸

Slim4 monitors open purchase orders and flags delays and orders needing rescheduling.¹²

In the published Virgin Atlantic example, SEKO’s control-tower team took over order management using Slimstock’s planning tool.²²

For the software-led workflow, purchasing users can plan and place orders; a standard Slimstock execution service was not established.¹⁸

Slim4’s order advice factors in minimum order quantities.¹⁸

Slim4 describes lead-time-aware order advice and safety-stock calculations.¹²

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.

Slim4’s Open to Buy functionality aligns orders with budgets and cashflow constraints.¹⁹

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

Slimstock describes batch and expiry management for food and shelf-life planning in its product range.¹²

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, direction, plan eligibility and fees were not established.

Not confirmed. A Amazon connector, its data objects, direction, plan eligibility and fees were not established.

Not confirmed. A documented standard 3PL connector, API mapping or supported provider catalogue was not established.

Slim4 imports and exports master and transactional data through interface tables, web services or flat files.¹²

A vendor announcement describes SAP S/4HANA inventory inputs and replenishment and safety-stock parameter write-back.²⁴

The FAQ reserves real-time ERP data exchange for the Enterprise platform.¹²

Not confirmed. Flat-file import/export is documented, but CSV specifically and a self-serve CSV workflow 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.

Not confirmed. Authority and responsibility for final forecast sign-off, cash commitment and purchase approval were not established.

Slim4 flags abnormal items so planners can focus on exceptions rather than reviewing the entire range.¹²

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

Slimstock estimates about three to four months for implementation and training before go-live, depending on supply-chain complexity.¹²

Not confirmed. Time from a defined starting event to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

Slimstock says implementation effort depends on data quality and the commitment of the supply-chain team.¹²

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.

Slimstock advertises customer success, technical support and consultancy.¹²

Slimstock says Academy training is free for its customers.¹²

Slimstock says support continues after go-live.¹²

Slimstock’s public contact extract lists a UK office in Redditch.²⁵

Slimstock Limited is an active UK company, number 05926553, registered in Redditch.²⁶

Not confirmed. UK-specific support hours, time zone and response-time SLA were not established.

Slimstock publishes a UK customer case for Lyco using Slim4.²⁷

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

Slim4 pricing is tailored after review of the buyer’s requirements.¹²

Slimstock says supply-chain complexity and required functionality affect price; charging units and billing terms were not established.¹²

Not confirmed. A minimum licence fee, minimum users, minimum catalogue size or minimum annual spend was not established.

Not confirmed. Implementation and integration charges were not established.

Not confirmed. A self-serve trial and its duration or payment conditions were not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum contract length, payment schedule, renewal, cancellation and refund 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

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