Antevon vs StockIQ: planning software or a two-week 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

StockIQ is ERP-connected supply chain planning software for manufacturers and distributors.¹⁵

StockIQ is planning software delivered with expert implementation and support.¹⁵

StockIQ is currently marketed as an available quote-based subscription offer.¹⁴

The public end-user licence identifies StockIQ Technologies as the contracting supplier.¹²

StockIQ Technologies announced a strategic partnership with Serent Capital in April 2025.¹³

Not confirmed. No formal product aliases or renamed product identity were established.

StockIQ is the product supplied by StockIQ Technologies.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

StockIQ describes Core as covering most mid-market teams and Enterprise as adding depth for multi-site planning.¹⁴

StockIQ targets manufacturers and distributors, including beauty and wellness businesses.¹⁶

StockIQ’s beauty page discusses DTC, specialty retail, mass-market and marketplace demand.¹⁶

StockIQ describes customer teams across the world; UK contracting availability was not established.¹⁷

StockIQ’s support guide lists GBP among the configurable default currency codes.¹⁸

StockIQ’s implementation scope requires internal personnel with planning and technical knowledge.¹⁹

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 supplies ERP access and data and participates in validation, while StockIQ provides implementation data work.²⁴

Not confirmed. The ongoing split of forecast-parameter upkeep between the customer and StockIQ was not established.

StockIQ says every subscription includes personalized onboarding led by former demand planners.¹⁴

StockIQ’s standard implementation includes one standard ERP and one automated nightly refresh.²⁴

StockIQ’s standard implementation lists 20 training hours and five weeks of post-go-live adoption support.²⁴

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.

StockIQ supports bottom-up, top-down and middle-out forecasts at customer, channel, item or group level.²⁰

StockIQ’s feature matrix lists concurrent weekly and monthly forecasting.²¹

StockIQ’s feature matrix lists a forecast horizon over 12 months.²¹

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.

StockIQ distinguishes sales-order demand from optional point-of-sale data and documents POS-based leading indicators.²³

Not confirmed. Named retailer EDI connectors, transport and write-back 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

StockIQ’s feature matrix lists promotion uplift and price-sensitivity analysis, plus past and future promotion adjustments.²²

StockIQ describes new-product planning using comparable products, category demand curves and channel ramp profiles.¹⁶

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

StockIQ translates demand and inventory plans into purchasing, production and transfer recommendations.¹⁵

StockIQ’s standard scope includes an order writer for purchase, transfer and manufacturing orders.¹⁹

StockIQ lists purchase-order automation with approvals.¹⁴

StockIQ trains the customer team to place vendor orders, oversee transfers and execute work orders through its workflows.²⁷

StockIQ lists item, warehouse and supplier order minimums and multiples.²²

StockIQ’s pricing page lists container, MOQ and pack optimization.¹⁴

StockIQ lists historical supplier lead-time calculations, variation buffering and variance analysis.²²

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.

StockIQ lists warehouse stock-mix optimization by budget; hard cash-flow-constrained purchasing was not established.²²

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

StockIQ lists shelf-life and expiration forecasting with lot tracking.²²

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 direct StockIQ Technologies Shopify connector was not established.

StockIQ’s July 2025 release notes list an Amazon SP API extract integration.²⁸

Not confirmed. A named 3PL integration and its data objects or direction were not established.

StockIQ’s standard scope supports named Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, NetSuite, Acumatica, SAP Business One and Epicor environments.²⁴

StockIQ documents CSV-based forecast import at selected hierarchy levels.²⁹

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.

StockIQ keeps the customer’s planners in control of decisions; formal forecast and cash sign-off roles are not published.¹⁶

StockIQ surfaces alerts for the customer’s planners to interpret and act on, with implementation and support help.¹⁶

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

StockIQ’s implementation page advertises full integration in 12 weeks, not a measured time to a first signed-off forecast.²⁷

StockIQ’s standard implementation requires a standard ERP already in production for at least 30 days.¹⁹

StockIQ’s standard scope calls for pre-validation of 10 required data feeds and any other business-essential feeds.¹⁹

The customer must provide system and data access, knowledgeable personnel and participation in implementation validation.²⁴

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.

StockIQ’s pricing page lists a Customer Success Manager, quarterly health checks and an annual executive business review.²⁵

StockIQ’s support policy states 7:30am to 5:00pm Mountain Standard Time and response within 24 hours except very low-impact issues.²⁶

Not confirmed. A staffed UK StockIQ office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity was not established.

StockIQ’s published general support schedule is in US Mountain time; UK-specific coverage was not established.²⁶

Not confirmed. A named UK StockIQ customer was not established.

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

StockIQ’s subscription price requires a scoped quote; only certain additional service rates are published.¹⁴

StockIQ’s subscription quote depends on ERP complexity, SKU and location scale, capabilities and services rather than seat count.²⁵

Not confirmed. A minimum subscription amount or required commercial commitment was not established.

Not confirmed. A separate mandatory setup fee or a zero-fee setup policy was not established.

Not confirmed. A vendor-published free-trial offer and its terms were not established.

Not confirmed. Subscription length, billing interval, 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

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