Antevon vs AGR: 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

AGR provides SaaS inventory management and supply-chain planning.¹²

AGR is a fully cloud-delivered SaaS platform, rather than a verified outsourced planning desk.¹²

AGR has a current SaaS offer with named packages and public documentation.¹⁴

The published software terms name AGR Dynamics ehf. as seller and owner of the software.¹³

Not confirmed. Current ultimate shareholders or a controlling parent of AGR Dynamics ehf. were not established.

AGR Inventory is also used in the official website title.¹³

AGR is the inventory and supply-chain planning software brand.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

AGR targets small to medium businesses; no qualifying revenue band was established.¹⁵

AGR also markets its ordering software for operations with 500 to 50,000 SKUs.¹⁶

AGR targets retailers, wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers.¹²

AGR publishes beauty-sector customer cases, including skincare and spa brand Templespa.¹⁷

The Templespa case covers ecommerce and several wholesale and partner channels.¹⁷

AGR reports an international operation including the UK.¹⁵

AGR automates calculations while planners retain control of policies, parameters and exceptions.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

AGR supports onboarding and validation, while a custom data-interface mapping is done by customer IT or a third-party integrator.²⁴

The technical data source must be refreshed before AGR’s daily sync.²⁵

The team sets policies and parameters and reviews recommendations.¹²

AGR lists tailored onboarding, training and full ERP integration as always included.¹⁴

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.

Inventory IQ includes monthly demand forecasts per item.¹⁴

AGR supports item/location forecasts and separate channel forecasts; weekly and customer-group planning are add-on features.¹⁸

The Plan Pro add-on lists weekly demand forecasts per item and customer-group planning.¹⁴

Public documentation sets a fixed maximum of 12 months for the Purchase Plan view.¹⁹

The feature overview documents a 14-month automatic forecast for every item/location combination.²⁰

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.

AGR forecasts from mapped ERP sales data; named external retailer sell-through feeds were not established.¹⁹

Not confirmed. A named retailer POS sell-through feed and its planning scope were not established.

Not confirmed. A documented direct integration with retailer EDI was 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

AGR can add planned promotional demand to order proposals.¹⁸

AGR advertises similar-item sales histories to support forecasts for new products.¹⁸

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

AGR generates order proposals from stock, lead times, safety stock and supplier constraints.¹⁶

AGR can transfer confirmed orders to an ERP, with the method depending on the integration.²¹

Inventory IQ lists purchase and transfer orders; ERP execution follows the configured order-transfer workflow.¹⁴

AGR can send confirmed orders to an ERP, but some routes leave final transfer to the brand’s IT or ERP partner.²¹

AGR models supplier MOQs and other ordering constraints.¹⁶

Replenishment calculations account for lead times and supplier constraints.¹⁶

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-constrained buying optimiser was not established.

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

AGR can use ERP batch best-before dates for replenishment and expiry-risk reporting.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 documented direct integration with Shopify was not established.

Not confirmed. A documented direct integration with Amazon was not established.

Not confirmed. A documented direct integration with a named 3PL was not established.

AGR documents dedicated Microsoft Dynamics connectors that read planning data and write approved orders back.²⁶

Other ERP systems connect through AGR’s mapped data interface rather than an assumed native connector.²⁶

AGR supports CSV files over SFTP as a configured technical integration, not a self-serve manual data-import screen.²⁵

Confirmed orders can also be exported manually as CSV or Excel and imported into the ERP.²¹

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 user reviews and confirms an order proposal before the approval-based ERP workflow executes it.¹⁶

Planners focus on exceptions, suppliers, promotions and other judgement-based decisions.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

A separate AGR product FAQ says most customers are up and running within four to eight weeks.²³

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

Implementation depends on the source system, data readiness and supply-chain complexity.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.

AGR advertises a dedicated support agent through implementation and ongoing use.²³

AGR lists a UK office at Webster Court in Warrington.²⁷

Not confirmed. UK human-support working hours and response times were not established.

AGR publishes a case about British beauty retailer Space NK’s use of AGR.²⁸

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

AGR directs buyers to contact it for a price list; no public amounts were established.¹⁴

AGR says pricing is aligned with the value of inventory managed in AGR.¹⁴

Not confirmed. The minimum subscription fee or minimum billable inventory value was not established.

Not confirmed. A separate setup or implementation fee amount was not established.

Not confirmed. A public trial duration and its terms were not established.

Not confirmed. The initial commitment and recurring billing interval were not established.

Published terms require at least one month’s notice before a subscription period ends and do not provide a partial refund for voluntary cancellation.¹³

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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