Antevon vs Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: business 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

Business Central is ERP software for small and midsize businesses.¹³

Business Central is ERP software, with implementation and support through partners.¹³

Microsoft currently offers Business Central with a trial and paid UK licence plans.¹⁴

Business Central is a Microsoft product.¹³

Microsoft uses Dynamics 365 Business Central and Business Central as product names.¹³

The option is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.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

Microsoft targets small and midsize businesses without specifying a revenue band in this description.¹³

Microsoft markets Business Central across distribution, retail and consumer goods, manufacturing and other sectors.¹³

Microsoft describes retail operations across stores, ecommerce and distribution networks.¹³

Business Central has a United Kingdom version with local functionality.¹⁵

A team using the planning tools needs an owner for item policies, parameters and forecast review.¹⁶

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 or its implementation partner still has to map, import and validate its business data.²⁷

A planning owner maintains the item and SKU settings that control replenishment.²⁰

Demand forecasts can be entered and revised manually, so this workflow still needs forecast judgment.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Whether implementation or training is included in a selected partner’s licence package is 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.

Manual demand forecasts can use location and variant detail.¹⁷

The Sales and Inventory Forecast extension aggregates locations and variants rather than producing a forecast for each location.¹⁸

The predictive extension uses posted item sales quantities and dates from the item ledger.¹⁸

The manual sales forecast is specified by item and period.¹⁷

Microsoft suggests monthly forecasts with a 12-month horizon for the predictive extension, with configurable periods.¹⁸

Manual demand forecasts offer daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and accounting-period views.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.

Sales-item forecasts are reduced by sales orders, which should not be confused with retailer consumer sell-through.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A forecast by named retailer using that retailer’s consumer sell-through was not established.

Cleo advertises third-party Business Central EDI with inbound purchase orders and outbound shipping notices and invoices.³⁰

SPS Commerce offers Business Central EDI implementation and ongoing operation as a separate provider service.³¹

Not confirmed. Specific Boots, Sephora UK, Lookfantastic, Cult Beauty, Space NK or H&B mappings and their fees 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

Not confirmed. Dedicated promotion-uplift or retailer-promotion profitability modelling was not established from the pages read.

Not confirmed. A dedicated new-product launch forecasting method was not established from the pages read.

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

The planning worksheet can suggest purchase, transfer, assembly and production orders.¹⁹

Wholesale purchase and transfer replenishment is also available through the requisition worksheet.¹⁹

The UK licence table includes supply chain planning in both Essentials and Premium.¹⁴

Planning can suggest postponing, reducing or cancelling replenishment orders when demand falls.²⁰

Business Central records purchase orders and invoices and updates inventory and finance records.²¹

An operator reviews or adjusts proposals and carries out the purchase workflow; the base software licence is not evidence of an outsourced buyer.²⁰

Planning supports minimum and maximum order quantities and order multiples.¹⁶

Purchase dates can be calculated from lead time, warehouse handling time and safety lead time.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.

Not confirmed. Cash-budget-constrained stock purchasing was not established; documented cash-flow forecasting is a separate finance function.

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

Item tracking supports lot, serial and package numbers with expiration dates.²³

Configured warehouses can pick tracked items by earliest expiration date.²⁴

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.

Microsoft’s Shopify connector supports automatic product, inventory, order and fulfilment synchronization through job queues.¹²

The Microsoft Shopify connector requires Business Central online and Shopify licences and is not available on-premises.²⁹

Shopify products can synchronize in both directions.¹²

Shopify customers and B2B companies can synchronize in both directions.¹²

The connector imports Shopify orders, including online store, POS and B2B orders.¹²

Business Central inventory levels can be sent to multiple Shopify locations.¹²

An optional Tinx third-party connector advertises Amazon product, stock, order, shipment, return and settlement flows.²⁶

Tinx says refunds started in Business Central are not sent to Amazon as a standard connector feature.²⁶

Cleo advertises Business Central warehouse EDI flows for shipping orders, stock transfers and receipts.³⁰

Not confirmed. Connectivity, field coverage and fees for the brand’s chosen UK 3PL were not established.

Business Central provides built-in and custom REST APIs for exchanging data with external systems.³²

Microsoft documents a CSV-import XMLport in the data-exchange framework.³³

Not confirmed. A ready-to-use CSV import for the required sales, stock and retailer forecast data was 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.

The business assigns purchase approvers and approval limits rather than handing spending authority to the software vendor.²⁸

The planner is expected to investigate planning lines with warnings before carrying out the plan.²⁰

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. Time from usable data to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

Getting usable planning requires business data and configuration, not just a licence.²⁷

The predictive extension requires sales history and may not return a forecast when data is insufficient or highly variable.¹⁸

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.

Technical support starts with the reselling partner, which can escalate unresolved issues to Microsoft.²⁵

Microsoft offers free learning content and says reselling partners can provide further training.²⁵

Not confirmed. A staffed Business Central-specific UK office or delivery team was not established.

Not confirmed. The contracting entity for a selected UK reseller agreement was not established.

Not confirmed. Technical support hours for the selected UK reselling partner were not established.

Microsoft publishes a UK customer story in which UNTHA UK uses Business Central as its system of record.³⁴

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

Microsoft publishes scoped UK licence amounts, not a complete implemented-system price.¹⁴

Implementation of the optional Tinx Amazon connector is quoted separately.²⁶

The displayed UK licence prices are per user per month, paid yearly.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A minimum number of full-user licences or minimum partner spend was not established.

Not confirmed. No amount for implementation, data migration or training was established from the Microsoft price page.

Microsoft advertises a free 30-day Business Central trial.¹⁴

The public UK licence rows state yearly payment.¹⁴

Not confirmed. Commercial cancellation windows, refunds and renewal terms for a selected partner contract 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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