Antevon vs Forecast Pro: 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

Forecast Pro is a demand-forecasting specialist that feeds broader planning systems.¹⁶

Forecast Pro is off-the-shelf software operated by the customer’s forecasting team.¹²

Separately priced training and consulting are available alongside the software.²¹

Forecast Pro is actively marketed with current Professional and TRAC subscription offers.¹⁵

Business Forecast Systems, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation, owns the software.¹⁴

Current editions are Forecast Pro Professional and Forecast Pro TRAC.¹³

Forecast Pro is a business forecasting software family.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

Not confirmed. A specific revenue band or brand-size eligibility threshold was not established.

The vendor lists CPG, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and several other sectors.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Specific supported DTC, marketplace and retail-channel data feeds were not established.

The vendor reports users in 88 countries.¹⁷

Forecast Pro serves dedicated forecasters and people for whom forecasting is one of several responsibilities.¹⁷

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 and its IT team collect and maintain the historic data.¹⁹

Updating historical data takes place externally, through an extraction routine, spreadsheet update or another process.²⁵

The user sets the forecast horizon and safety-stock lead-time parameters.²⁰

The software includes a tutorial and sample data for new users.²²

Not confirmed. Included vendor-led data migration, connector development or implementation-service hours were 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.

Forecast Pro supports user-defined forecasting hierarchies and aggregate reporting.¹⁸

The documentation supports daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly calendar data.¹⁹

The forecaster specifies how many periods ahead to forecast.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. A documented retailer sell-in versus consumer sell-through workflow was not established.

Not confirmed. Retailer EDI native or named third-party integration was not evidenced in the public sources read.

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

Planners can flag promotion, stockout and other unusual periods in event models.¹⁶

Forecast Pro can map history from existing or discontinued items into new items.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

Forecast Pro includes safety-stock and reorder-point functionality.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Native purchase-order creation, sending and execution were not established.

Purchasing remains a downstream action after the demand forecast unless separately assigned to another operator.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity or order-multiple constraints were not established.

Users can set a lead time for safety-stock calculations, including fractional periods.²⁰

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 purchase optimization 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 stock 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. Shopify native or named third-party integration was not evidenced in the public sources read.

Not confirmed. Amazon native or named third-party integration was not evidenced in the public sources read.

Not confirmed. 3PL native or named third-party integration was not evidenced in the public sources read.

Forecast Pro exchanges data with ERP/MRP through files or ODBC rather than requiring replacement of the existing planning system.²²

Excel, CSV and text interfaces support data input and output.²²

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 software supports review, adjustment and approval before operational decisions, rather than assigning decision authority to the vendor.¹⁶

The customer’s planners review the exceptions flagged by the software.¹⁸

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 vendor describes implementation as typically taking days or weeks, depending on size, data quality and integration needs.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A measured or guaranteed time from data readiness to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

Forecast Pro’s implementation page specifies a Windows-based client or server installation.²²

Historical sales data must be prepared for a file interface or ODBC database connection.²²

The current pricing page recommends budgeting eight web-training hours for Professional and sixteen for TRAC.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.

Active subscriptions include updates and unlimited technical support by phone and email.²³

Not confirmed. A Forecast Pro or Business Forecast Systems staffed UK office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK-incorporated contracting entity was not established.

Not confirmed. UK support hours, local-time coverage and an SLA were 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

Professional has a public scoped numeric price, but its ISO currency and tax basis remain unverified.¹⁵

TRAC pricing is quote-required.¹⁵

Forecast Pro licences are annual per-user subscriptions.²³

Both software editions have a 12-month minimum billed annually.¹⁵

A forecasting team requires at least one Forecaster licence; Collaborator licences are TRAC-only.²³

Not confirmed. A mandatory setup or onboarding fee was not established.

The advertised trial lasts 21 days, needs no credit card and ends automatically, but access requires a form.²⁴

The pricing page specifies annual billing with a 12-month minimum.¹⁵

The EULA provides automatic one-year renewals unless either party gives at least 30 days’ notice.¹⁴

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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