Antevon vs Unleashed: planning software or a forecasting project

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

Unleashed is inventory and manufacturing software with an optional or bundled AIM planning module.¹²

Unleashed is cloud software with implementation and support services.¹²

Unleashed currently offers Core and Pro subscriptions and a free trial.¹³

Unleashed is owned by The Access Group.¹²

Not confirmed. No separate current trading aliases were established.

Unleashed is a cloud inventory, purchasing, production and sales system.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

Unleashed targets small and mid-sized product businesses.¹²

Unleashed explicitly targets small and medium beauty and personal-care brands.¹⁴

Unleashed targets businesses selling through B2B, online and offline channels.¹⁴

Unleashed serves international customers and advertises UK-based customer-success teams.¹⁵

The implementation guidance calls for an internal project owner and relevant operational managers.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 brand cleans and imports data with guidance from Unleashed onboarding.¹⁵

The operator maintains min/max stock days and lead days, with system calculation options.¹⁸

A FlightPath onboarding package is required for all accounts and is priced separately.²³

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.

AIM forecasts monthly demand for a selected product and warehouse.¹⁶

AIM offers 6, 12 or 18 months ahead, with 12 months as the default.¹⁷

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.

The SPS Commerce integration documents retailer POs inbound and invoices and ASNs outbound.²²

Not confirmed. Retailer consumer sell-through feeds and a named UK retailer forecast were not established.

SPS Commerce connects retailer orders into Unleashed and transmits invoices and ASNs back to retailers.²²

Crossfire offers managed EDI and API connections between Unleashed and trading partners.³⁰

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

AIM allows future monthly demand to be edited manually.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Dedicated retailer promotion uplift, event-calendar and profit-evaluation functionality was not established.

AIM Forecasting can plan new products without transaction history using entered future demand expectations.²⁰

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

AIM calculates replenishments from forecast demand, open transactions and the chosen stock-holding strategy.¹⁸

The AIM replenishment grid can create purchases, assemblies and transfers from forecasts and production plans.¹⁹

AIM lets an operator review recommended purchase quantities, supplier, warehouse and delivery date before creating POs.¹⁹

The brand uses AIM to create purchases and must move purchases from Parked to Placed for supply calculations.¹⁹

AIM supports minimum replenishment quantities, order increments and the default supplier MOQ.¹⁸

AIM can use entered supplier lead days or calculate them from historic delivery performance.¹⁸

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 purchasing cash-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimisation was not established.

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

Unleashed records expiry dates against product batches, with one expiry date per product batch.²¹

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.

Unleashed has a native Shopify integration with configurable stock and product synchronization.²⁷

Shopify product updates follow a configured master system; up to five Shopify stores are documented.²⁷

Shopify sales and customer data feed Unleashed, with stock and fulfilment updates between the systems.²⁸

The native Amazon integration imports orders and updates stock availability, including UK marketplaces.²⁹

Amazon product details sync into Unleashed, but Amazon customer PII is excluded.²⁹

Crossfire can send sales orders to a 3PL and return shipment, tracking and inventory updates to Unleashed.³⁰

Unleashed also connects to Mintsoft WMS for order and stock workflows.³¹

Unleashed has native Xero and QuickBooks accounting connections.³²

The Xero connection covers inventory movements, purchases, sales, stock values and financial transactions.³³

AIM imports and exports monthly forecast demand and stock strategies by product and warehouse through CSV.³⁴

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 operator reviews calculated replenishments and saves the chosen forecast and strategy.¹⁶

Unleashed prompts the user when changing conditions mean forecasts need review.²⁵

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

Unleashed says a typical implementation takes 4–6 weeks, depending on data, workflows, integrations and testing.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Time to the first reviewed, decision-ready forecast for a specified catalogue and retailer set was not established.

Implementation depends on prepared data, an internal project owner, testing and training time.¹⁵

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.

Unleashed offers tiered support plans with two, four or eight named contacts.²⁴

Unleashed’s customer-success page says its teams are based in Bristol and other international offices.³⁵

Not confirmed. The exact legal contracting entity for a new UK Unleashed customer was not established.

The support-plan table lists weekday service windows, but does not name their time zone.³⁵

Not confirmed. The exact UK time zone, holiday coverage and out-of-hours support commitments were not established.

Unleashed publishes a UK customer case for Valentte, whose manufacturing and fulfilment operation is described as being in Cheshire.³⁶

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

Unleashed publishes scoped USD subscription prices; this is not a complete UK implementation or eCommerce quote.¹³

Core and Pro include limited users, orders, integrations and API capacity, with upgrades available.¹³

Optional storage and API capacity are also priced on the public page.¹³

Not confirmed. The complete minimum payable amount for a UK brand using the required integrations and support was not established.

Full onboarding is listed at USD 5,549 as a one-off fee.¹³

Self-service onboarding is listed at USD 449 as a one-off fee.¹³

Standard onboarding is listed at USD 799 as a one-off fee.¹³

Unleashed advertises a 14-day free trial without a credit card.²⁵

The pricing FAQ advertises 30 days’ notice for monthly plans and cancellation at a 12-month annual term end with the same notice.¹³

The linked Access Global Terms define a 36-month default initial term unless the Order specifies another period.²⁶

Not confirmed. The applicable Unleashed order term, renewal and cancellation rules require confirmation from the public contractual materials or the buyer’s Order.

The linked general terms call for at least 90 days’ notice to terminate at the end of a term.²⁶

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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