Comparisons Planning consultancies and managed forecasting

Antevon vs FourCentric: a buying team or a two-week forecast audit

Checked against FourCentric’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 22 Oct 2026.

FourCentric offers help with planning and forecasting processes¹⁸. Pick FourCentric when you need supply-chain redesign across people, technology and logistics¹⁸. Pick Antevon when you need a fixed-fee, two-week forecast audit.

Who each one fits

FourCentric fits organisations needing help buying from suppliers without building a full-time team for that work¹⁶.

Antevon serves beauty brands selling through retailers or preparing to do so. It fits when nobody owns the forecast full-time.

When FourCentric is the better choice

When supplier costs and contracts need regular attention, consider FourCentric's outsourced purchasing support¹⁶.
If you need stock reserves reviewed, FourCentric offers work on reserve levels and cash tied up in stock¹⁸.
If you need help reviewing promotions, FourCentric's retail consultancy covers how well they perform¹⁷.

When Antevon is the better choice

If you need buy, move, hold or cut recommendations, Antevon's audit attaches the money impact to each decision.
If you need to assess a retailer promotion, Antevon's audit compares its value against not running it.

How they differ

FourCentric offers advice, training and improvement projects¹⁸. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call.

Antevon's forecast gives a number for each product, retailer and month. The audit leaves you with two Excel files to keep.

FourCentric's pages do not say how a selected service connects to your business system. Antevon's audit works from your sales export and retailer reports, plus an hour for questions.

FourCentric lists locations in London, Dorchester, Leamington Spa and Wirral²⁰. Antevon is for brands in the UK and EU.

Side by side

Rows are the questions UK beauty brands ask us. Each line is a fact from the company’s own public pages. Check this comparison: sources and dates below.

Antevon

FourCentric

What it is

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

FourCentric is a procurement, supply-chain and operations consultancy group with managed services.¹²

The group also offers procurement-focused analytics software, a different scope from a managed demand forecast.¹⁸

Who it is for

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.⁴

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

FourCentric describes Procure4 as a cost-base reduction specialist for mid-market businesses, without numeric revenue limits in that description.¹²

FourCentric publicly targets consumer goods and retail alongside several other industries.¹⁷

Who builds the forecast

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 confirmed. Responsibility for extracting, cleaning and mapping client sales, stock and retailer data is not established.

What the forecast covers

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.⁵

Not confirmed. The published pages do not establish the SKU, retailer or location granularity of a delivered FourCentric forecast.

Retailers and sell-through

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.⁷

Not confirmed. Use of retailer sell-in orders versus consumer sell-through data in a delivered forecast is not established.

Promotions and launches

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

FourCentric includes promotion effectiveness in its retail, wholesale and distribution consultancy scope.¹⁷

Orders to suppliers

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.³

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.³

Not confirmed. The scope of recurring replenishment recommendations or automated reorder execution is not established.

Cash

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.⁵

Not confirmed. Optimisation of buys against an explicit cash budget is not established, despite the published working-capital consultancy offer.

Batches and shelf life

Not part of the published offer.

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning treatment is not established.

What it connects to

Not part of the published offer.

Not confirmed. Package-specific support for Shopify is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

What your team still does

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.⁵

Not confirmed. The split of forecast sign-off, budget approval and buying authority is not established.

Getting started

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

Strategy work uses client feedback, market context and current operating-model assessment.¹⁹

Support and UK presence

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.⁵

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.⁵

FourCentric says it provides ongoing operational support through managed services where needed.¹²

FourCentric publishes a London office address and three other UK locations.²⁰

How it is charged

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

Virtual Procurement is described as a monthly fixed-fee retainer.¹⁶

Anything else

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.¹¹

FourCentric offers inventory-buffer work aimed at service levels and working capital.¹⁸

FourCentric offers tailored planning, scheduling and forecasting process improvement aligned to supply and demand signals.¹⁸

Every fact we hold for this page (126), with what we could not confirm

Antevon

FourCentric

What it is

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

FourCentric is a procurement, supply-chain and operations consultancy group with managed services.¹²

The group also offers procurement-focused analytics software, a different scope from a managed demand forecast.¹⁸

FourCentric offers advisory, training and improvement projects.¹⁸

FourCentric offers fully outsourced or category-specific procurement teams.¹⁶

FourCentric currently advertises outsourced procurement and virtual procurement services.¹⁶

Companies House records Ansor Fund I GP LLP, as GP of Ansor Fund I LP, as the active controlling entity of FOURCENTRIC GROUP LIMITED.¹⁴

Companies House records FOURCENTRIC GROUP LIMITED as the active controlling entity of FOURCENTRIC LIMITED.¹⁵

4C Procurement is the former brand name, according to Ansor’s March 2025 rebrand announcement.¹³

FourCentric is the current public group brand.¹²

Who it is for

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

FourCentric describes Procure4 as a cost-base reduction specialist for mid-market businesses, without numeric revenue limits in that description.¹²

FourCentric publicly targets consumer goods and retail alongside several other industries.¹⁷

Its consumer-goods industry page includes retail, wholesale and distribution businesses.¹⁷

Its managed service is aimed at organisations needing procurement expertise without building a full-time procurement team.¹⁶

Who builds the forecast

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 extracting, cleaning and mapping client sales, stock and retailer data is not established.

Not confirmed. Recurring upkeep of forecasting and inventory parameters is not established.

Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in a quoted planning or managed-service package is not established.

What the forecast covers

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.

Not confirmed. The published pages do not establish the SKU, retailer or location granularity of a delivered FourCentric forecast.

Not confirmed. The forecast horizon and time-bucket frequency of a delivered forecast are not established.

Retailers and sell-through

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. Use of retailer sell-in orders versus consumer sell-through data in a delivered forecast is not established.

Not confirmed. Package-specific support for retailer EDI is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

Promotions and launches

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

FourCentric includes promotion effectiveness in its retail, wholesale and distribution consultancy scope.¹⁷

Not confirmed. New-product launch forecasting and its method are not established.

Orders to suppliers

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

Not confirmed. The scope of recurring replenishment recommendations or automated reorder execution is not established.

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, sending, authorisation and supplier follow-up responsibilities are not established for a selected package.

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves, sends and follows up purchase orders under a selected engagement is not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity constraints in forecasting or purchasing are not established.

Not confirmed. The treatment and upkeep of supplier lead times in a delivered buy plan are not established.

Cash

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. Optimisation of buys against an explicit cash budget is not established, despite the published working-capital consultancy offer.

Batches and shelf life

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning treatment is not established.

What it connects to

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. Package-specific support for Shopify is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

Not confirmed. Package-specific support for Amazon is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

Not confirmed. Package-specific support for 3PL systems is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

Not confirmed. Package-specific support for ERP systems is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

Not confirmed. Package-specific support for CSV file exchange is not evidenced, including data objects, direction and method.

What your team still does

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.

Not confirmed. The split of forecast sign-off, budget approval and buying authority is not established.

Not confirmed. Responsibility for day-to-day demand exceptions is not established.

Getting started

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. A standard time from agreed data receipt to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast is not established.

Strategy work uses client feedback, market context and current operating-model assessment.¹⁹

Support and UK presence

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.

FourCentric says it provides ongoing operational support through managed services where needed.¹²

FourCentric publishes a London office address and three other UK locations.²⁰

FOURCENTRIC GROUP LIMITED is an active UK company registered at Kings House in London.²¹

FOURCENTRIC LIMITED is a separate active UK company, formerly 4C PROCUREMENT LIMITED.²²

Not confirmed. UK support hours, service-level commitments and holiday cover are not established.

FourCentric publishes a procurement case involving a UK DIY and home-improvement retailer.²³

How it is charged

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. A current public service amount or explicit quotation-only tariff was not established.

Virtual Procurement is described as a monthly fixed-fee retainer.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Minimum service fee, minimum spend and eligibility thresholds are not established.

Not confirmed. A service setup or implementation fee amount is not established.

Not confirmed. A standard free trial or paid pilot offer is not established.

Not confirmed. Minimum commitment, renewal, cancellation and termination terms are not established.

Anything else

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.¹¹

FourCentric offers inventory-buffer work aimed at service levels and working capital.¹⁸

FourCentric offers tailored planning, scheduling and forecasting process improvement aligned to supply and demand signals.¹⁸

Its Virtual Procurement service covers cost reduction, governance, suppliers and contracts.¹⁶

Words used in the table

SKU: one product in one size or shade
MOQ: the smallest order a supplier accepts
PO: a purchase order, your order to a supplier
Lead time: how long a supplier takes to deliver
Sell-through: what shoppers bought at the retailer
EDI: the data link large retailers use for orders and sales
GMV: total sales through your online store
BOM: the list of parts that go into a product
3PL: a warehouse company that stores and ships for you
ERP: a business system for stock, orders and accounts

Published prices

Each price is the company’s own list price, as its page shows it, with the date we checked it. We do not estimate a price a company does not publish. Price your own case.

FourCentric

Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).

Not confirmed. The amount and currency of the Virtual Procurement retainer are unknown.

Antevon

The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated.⁸

The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated.⁹

Switching or using both

If you use FourCentric's supplier work alongside Antevon's monthly forecast updates, agree separate contracts and who makes each decision¹⁶.

Questions people ask

What do we need to send Antevon?

Send Antevon 12 to 24 months of sales, orders to suppliers, your retailer list and promotion calendar. The two weeks start when your data arrives, not when you pay.

How does FourCentric charge for ongoing help?

FourCentric describes Virtual Procurement as a monthly fixed-fee retainer¹⁶. Its public pages do not state the amount or currency.

Does Antevon require new software?

Antevon's audit does not require you to adopt software or keep paying for a login. The full terms for working together sit in your signed engagement letter.

Who cleans the data, and who can see it?

Antevon's audit includes cleaning imperfect data without a surcharge. Antevon uses exports and reports only for your files, shares them with nobody outside Antevon, and deletes them on request.

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Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about FourCentric comes from a public page, read on the date shown. Antevon's own column follows the same rule.

We read these pages on 22 Oct 2026, unless a line says otherwise.

FourCentric's pages

Antevon's own pages

1. Brand kit · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.
2. Terms · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.
3. The 2-week audit · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.
4. llms.txt (antevon.com) Read 21 Oct 2026.
5. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it. Read 21 Oct 2026.
6. What a November promotion has to sell to pay back · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.
7. Only 2 left, and the factory needs four weeks · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.
8. The 2-week audit · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.
9. llms.txt (antevon.com) Read 21 Oct 2026.
10. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it. Read 21 Oct 2026.
11. Privacy · Antevon Read 21 Oct 2026.

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FourCentric is a trade mark of its owner. Antevon is not affiliated with FourCentric.

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