Antevon vs Avercast: forecasting software or a two-week 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

Avercast covers demand forecasting, supply planning and related sales and operations planning.¹⁴

The verified offer is planning software, with services referenced but not scoped as an outsourced demand desk.¹²

Avercast continues as an actively marketed demand and supply planning offer under TransImpact.¹⁵

TransImpact states that it acquired Avercast in 2022.¹⁴

A current vendor release calls the product Avercast Supply Planning under TransImpact.¹³

Avercast is the named forecasting solution used in TransImpact’s current planning offer.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

TransImpact positions its Avercast-powered suite for scaling mid-market companies and illustrates scale at $50 million and $2 billion.¹⁶

A published Demand Planning customer example is in pet products and ecommerce.¹⁷

A published Demand Planning customer example is in housewares.¹⁸

A published Demand Planning customer example is in chef apparel and uniforms.¹⁹

A published Demand Planning customer example spans multiple distributors.¹⁹

The Evriholder customer case describes demand planning across retail locations.¹⁸

The Coastal Pet Products customer case includes an ecommerce footprint.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Current UK customer eligibility and supported service territories were not established.

The published workflow is designed for planners and cross-functional sales, supply and finance teams.²⁰

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

Not confirmed. Responsibility for extracts, feed maintenance, mapping, history cleaning and stockout adjustment was not established.

Not confirmed. Who maintains MOQ, lead-time, supplier and other planning parameters was not established.

Not confirmed. Whether implementation, training and integration are included in the licence 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.

Demand planners can incorporate a salesperson forecast at SKU level; retailer dimensions and time buckets were not established.¹²

Not confirmed. The current public pages did not establish the demand-forecast horizon.

The S&OP page describes planning the next 4–18 months; this is not a demand-forecast maximum.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.

Not confirmed. The current documentation did not establish separate retailer sell-in versus consumer sell-through planning.

Not confirmed. A current named retailer or EDI connection, method, data objects, direction and plan coverage 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

Demand planning includes promotional and event forecasting.¹⁶

Demand planning includes new-product introduction tools.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

Supply planning advertises safety stock optimisation, low-stock alerts, reorder points and order plans.¹⁶

Order Optimizer produces order plans and links to purchasing or ERP systems; creating or sending POs inside Avercast is not established.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Native PO creation, transmission and receiving were not established.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves and sends POs, and follows suppliers or freight, was not established.

Order Optimizer recognises minimum order quantities and shipping constraints.¹⁵

Supply planners can vary lead times and shipments in a what-if workspace.¹⁵

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 in order optimisation was not established.

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry-date and shelf-life-constrained planning were not established.

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 current Shopify connection, method, data objects, direction and plan coverage were not established.

Not confirmed. A current Amazon connection, method, data objects, direction and plan coverage were not established.

Not confirmed. A current 3PL connection, method, data objects, direction and plan coverage were not established.

Supply Planning advertises direct integration with purchasing or ERP systems, without naming connectors, protocols or plan limits.¹⁵

Not confirmed. A current CSV import/export connection, method, data objects, direction and plan coverage 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.

In the S&OP workflow, client leadership reviews the aligned plan and makes decisions; PO and cash approval authority is not established.²⁰

Not confirmed. The published what-if workflow requires planner review and real-plan updates; the planner’s employer and contractual ownership are unverified.¹³

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

The home page advertises supply-chain planning deployment in under 12 weeks, without a stated start event or first-reviewed-forecast endpoint.¹⁴

Not confirmed. The required input history, implementation roles, data-preparation scope and acceptance milestones were not established.

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.

TransImpact publishes a client-support email and support-portal link; package coverage and response commitments are unknown.²¹

Not confirmed. A current staffed UK office was not verified.

Not confirmed. A current UK legal entity or UK contracting entity was not verified.

Not confirmed. A current UK support hours or time-zone service commitments was not verified.

Not confirmed. A current named UK customer or explicit UK customer acceptance was not verified.

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. Current first-party pricing status remains unknown; a quote-required sales process was not explicitly verified.

Not confirmed. The charging basis, licence unit and module bundling were not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum licence spend, seats, volume and commitment were not established.

Not confirmed. Implementation, integration and setup fees were not established; no zero-fee assumption is made.

Not confirmed. A trial’s price, duration and eligibility were not established.

Not confirmed. Contract length, renewal, cancellation and tax 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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