Comparisons Planning consultancies and managed forecasting

Antevon vs Solventure: a planning suite, or Excel files to keep

Checked against Solventure’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 21 Oct 2026.

Pick Solventure if you want planning advice and help putting planning software in place¹⁴. Pick Antevon if you want a fixed-fee, two-week project to build your sales forecast.

Who each one fits

Solventure has put planning systems in place for manufacturers, consumer goods businesses, retailers and distributors¹⁶. Pick it if your team can commit to training and ongoing feedback¹⁸.

Antevon targets independent beauty and skincare brands selling through retailers, or preparing to do so. Consider the audit if nobody owns your forecast full-time.

When Solventure is the better choice

If you need to plan product launches and retirements, Solventure includes both in its planning process¹⁶.
If sales, operations and finance want to plan together, consider Solventure with implementation and support scope agreed²⁰.
If stock ties up cash, Solventure compares possible plans for stock funding, costs and customer service²⁰.

When Antevon is the better choice

If retailer promotions need a financial check, Antevon's audit compares running a promotion with not running it.
If you need stock decisions with their cash impact, Antevon's audit recommends what to buy, move, hold or cut.

How they differ

Solventure's forecasting approach separates promotional sales from normal sales¹⁶. For Antevon's audit, you supply sales exports, retailer reports and an hour for questions. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call.

Antevon forecasts sales by product, retailer and month. The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.

Solventure's data service moves data into the planning system and back to your business system¹⁴.

Solventure lists its headquarters in Ghent, Belgium¹⁷. Its pages do not say whether it currently takes new UK customers. It describes support after the system goes live, including monitoring, retraining and updates¹⁸. Antevon's service is aimed at UK and EU brands.

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.

Antevon

Solventure

What it is

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

Solventure provides enterprise planning consultancy and implementation alongside software.¹⁵

Solventure offers planning consultancy and software-implementation projects.¹⁴

Who it is for

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.⁴

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

Solventure describes implementation experience in manufacturing, FMCG, retail and distribution.¹⁶

Its demand-planning process includes collaboration with customers and channel partners.¹⁶

Who builds the forecast

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

Solventure describes correcting stockouts and separating event effects in demand history as part of its planning approach.¹⁶

What the forecast covers

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.⁵

Not confirmed. A standard SKU-by-retailer forecast grain and time bucket were not verified.

Retailers and sell-through

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.⁷

Not confirmed. Separate retailer sell-in and consumer sell-through planning was not verified.

Promotions and launches

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

Its demand-planning approach separates promotional demand from the baseline and adds commercial event inputs.¹⁶

Its demand-planning process incorporates new products and phase-in or phase-out decisions.¹⁶

Orders to suppliers

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.³

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.³

Its supply-chain planning process hands the approved plan to procurement and replenishment.¹⁹

Its supply-planning process considers material, capacity and lead-time constraints.¹⁹

Cash

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.⁵

Its S&OP approach evaluates working-capital trade-offs alongside service and cost.²⁰

Batches and shelf life

Not part of the published offer.

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning support was not verified for the selected consultancy scope.

What it connects to

Not part of the published offer.

Solventure describes data exchange into the planning environment and back to the ERP.¹⁴

What your team still does

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.⁵

Not confirmed. Contractual forecast sign-off, cash approval and delegated purchasing authority were not verified.

Getting started

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

Solventure says companies can establish a functioning S&OP process in 6 to 12 months on average, with maturity taking longer.²⁰

Its methodology requires stakeholder engagement, capability and data readiness, design and key-user participation.¹⁸

Support and UK presence

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.⁵

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.⁵

Solventure describes post-go-live aftercare, monitoring, retraining support and updates.¹⁸

A vendor article dated 12 May 2021 mentions an unnamed customer located in the UK.²³

How it is charged

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

A current customer-success role describes turning customer roadmaps into scope and quotations.²²

Anything else

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.

Every fact we hold for this page (127), with what we could not confirm

Antevon

Solventure

What it is

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

Solventure provides enterprise planning consultancy and implementation alongside software.¹⁵

Solventure offers planning consultancy and software-implementation projects.¹⁴

Solventure also offers its own Perform Suite for portfolio optimization, data orchestration and value tracking.²¹

Not confirmed. A recurring outsourced demand-desk package was not verified.

Solventure currently advertises planning implementation and support services.¹⁴

The public privacy statement identifies Solventure NV as the company responsible for the website.¹³

Not confirmed. Current ultimate shareholders or a parent owner were not verified.

The website identifies the Belgian legal company as Solventure NV.¹³

Solventure is the current public trading name.¹²

Who it is for

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. No general customer revenue band, minimum catalogue size or location threshold was verified.

Solventure describes implementation experience in manufacturing, FMCG, retail and distribution.¹⁶

Its demand-planning process includes collaboration with customers and channel partners.¹⁶

Solventure lists its headquarters in Ghent, Belgium.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Current UK new-customer acceptance and delivery arrangements were not verified.

Its implementation approach calls for stakeholder commitment, trained key users and continuous feedback.¹⁸

Who builds the forecast

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

Solventure describes correcting stockouts and separating event effects in demand history as part of its planning approach.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Ownership of ongoing planning-parameter upkeep was not verified.

Not confirmed. No package price or standard bundle established whether implementation is included or billed separately.

What the forecast covers

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.

Not confirmed. A standard SKU-by-retailer forecast grain and time bucket were not verified.

Not confirmed. A general contracted forecast horizon was not verified.

Retailers and sell-through

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. Separate retailer sell-in and consumer sell-through planning was not verified.

Not confirmed. named retailer or EDI integration support and read/write scope were not established from the public sources read.

Promotions and launches

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 demand-planning approach separates promotional demand from the baseline and adds commercial event inputs.¹⁶

Its demand-planning process incorporates new products and phase-in or phase-out decisions.¹⁶

Orders to suppliers

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

Its supply-chain planning process hands the approved plan to procurement and replenishment.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, sending and supplier follow-up were not verified as a Solventure service deliverable.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves and sends purchase orders was not verified.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity handling was not verified for a scoped Solventure implementation.

Its supply-planning process considers material, capacity and lead-time constraints.¹⁹

Cash

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.

Not confirmed. A hard cash-budget constraint on buy recommendations was not verified.

Its S&OP approach evaluates working-capital trade-offs alongside service and cost.²⁰

Batches and shelf life

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning support was not verified for the selected consultancy scope.

What it connects to

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. Shopify integration support and read/write scope were not established from the public sources read.

Not confirmed. Amazon integration support and read/write scope were not established from the public sources read.

Not confirmed. 3PL integration support and read/write scope were not established from the public sources read.

Solventure describes data exchange into the planning environment and back to the ERP.¹⁴

Not confirmed. CSV import/export integration support and read/write scope were not established from the public sources read.

What your team still does

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. Contractual forecast sign-off, cash approval and delegated purchasing authority were not verified.

Not confirmed. Ownership and frequency of ongoing forecast-exception reviews were not verified.

Getting started

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 standard time to the first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was verified.

Solventure says companies can establish a functioning S&OP process in 6 to 12 months on average, with maturity taking longer.²⁰

Its methodology requires stakeholder engagement, capability and data readiness, design and key-user participation.¹⁸

Support and UK presence

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.

Solventure describes post-go-live aftercare, monitoring, retraining support and updates.¹⁸

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not verified.

Not confirmed. A UK legal or contracting entity linked to Solventure NV was not verified.

Not confirmed. UK support hours, response times and service-level commitments were not verified.

A vendor article dated 12 May 2021 mentions an unnamed customer located in the UK.²³

How it is charged

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. Public price status remains unknown; scoped quotations are mentioned but no list price or explicit quote-only rule was verified.

Not confirmed. The charging unit for consulting, software licensing and support was not verified.

A current customer-success role describes turning customer roadmaps into scope and quotations.²²

Not confirmed. No minimum fee, minimum licence count or minimum engagement was verified.

Not confirmed. No implementation or setup-fee amount, or waiver rule, was verified.

Not confirmed. No trial entitlement, duration or free implementation offer was verified.

Not confirmed. Contract length, renewal, cancellation and payment schedules were not verified.

Anything else

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.

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. Price your own case.

Solventure

Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).

Not confirmed. No exact public service or software plan amount, currency, billing period or tax basis was established.

Antevon

The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated.⁸

The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated.⁹

Switching or using both

If you use both, contract Solventure's systems project separately from Antevon's monthly forecast and record of decisions¹⁴. Agree data access, handover formats and one owner to approve the plan¹⁴.

Questions people ask

Does Solventure place orders with suppliers?

Solventure's pages do not say whether creating and sending supplier orders forms part of its service. Its planning process hands the approved plan to teams responsible for scheduling, buying and restocking¹⁹.

Can I stop after the Antevon audit?

Yes, the monthly desk is optional. You can keep using the audit files without a paid software login. Your signed engagement letter contains the full terms for the work.

Book the 2-week audit

Sources and dates

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

We read these pages on 21 Oct 2026.

Solventure's pages

Antevon's own pages

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Solventure is a trade mark of its owner. Antevon is not affiliated with Solventure.

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