Antevon vs manual reorder rules: stock reports, or a two-week forecasting 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

This is a DIY operating choice rather than a new planning subscription or managed desk.¹⁴

Your team operates the reports and manual purchasing rules; this option does not add a managed planner.¹⁴

The workflow is currently viable using Shopify’s documented inventory reports and native purchase orders.¹²

The brand owns the DIY workflow; Shopify supplies the underlying admin tools.¹³

Not confirmed. No separate product aliases have been established for this DIY workflow.

Keep existing reports and run replenishment decisions in-house.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. No revenue or catalogue-size threshold is established for this workflow.

The approach concerns businesses that carry product inventory; it is not evidenced as a beauty-specific service.¹²

Use Shopify’s own store data and separately review any retailer reports the brand already receives.¹⁵

Shopify has a current UK GBP-priced platform offer; suitability depends on the brand’s existing accounts and report access.¹⁶

Choose this approach only when a named person can maintain rules, review sales and act on reorders.¹⁴

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 exports and checks its inventory data and handles its own product and location mapping.¹⁸

The brand reviews and updates reorder points, supplier assumptions and product categories.¹⁴

Not confirmed. There is no verified implementation package for this DIY option.

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.

The documented stock-cover estimate is calculated for each product variant.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A reviewed demand-forecast horizon for the whole DIY workflow is not established.

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.

Shopify’s sell-through report measures the merchant’s inventory sold; it does not establish an external retailer sell-through feed.¹⁷

The Shopify sell-through report has approximately two days of processing delay, closer to three in early time zones.¹⁷

Not confirmed. The retained workflow’s retailer EDI connection is 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

The internal operator can use seasonal trends and planned marketing to change order size and timing.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A standard new-product forecast method is not established for this workflow.

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

Days remaining divides ending inventory by an average daily sales rate based on the last 28 days.¹⁷

Days remaining is N/A when there are no sales in the selected period and is zero for negative ending stock.¹⁷

ABC grading uses the last 28 days of revenue contribution, not item cost, and its time window cannot be changed.¹⁷

From 1 October 2026 inventory reports use On hand stock, including Committed and Unavailable units; older data still uses Available.¹⁷

Shopify admin supports purchase orders recording products, quantities, costs, payment terms and suppliers.¹³

A purchase order can be drafted, marked Ordered after supplier confirmation and linked to a transfer for receiving.¹³

The internal operator manages supplier confirmation, order status and receipt tracking.¹³

Supplier minimum order quantities remain a purchasing input for the person running the workflow.¹⁴

The operator can use past sales and average lead times to set a safety margin.¹⁴

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 cash-constrained purchasing optimisation capability is 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, lot and expiry handling for the selected workflow is 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.

Native Shopify admin supports inventory quantities, transfers and purchase-order records.¹²

Not confirmed. The retained workflow’s Amazon connection is not established.

Not confirmed. The retained workflow’s 3PL connection is not established.

Not confirmed. The retained workflow’s ERP connection is not established.

Shopify supports inventory CSV export and import of product inventory quantities by location.¹⁸

Inventory CSV imports have a 15 MB limit, and including current and new On hand values enables overwrite checks.¹⁸

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 brand keeps authority over order quantities, supplier terms and cash commitments.¹³

The brand investigates stock discrepancies and decides what needs correction.¹⁴

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. No standard time to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast is established.

Shopify inventory tracking needs at least one location and must be activated.¹²

Shopify says its main analytics features are on any subscription plan, with Analytics permissions required for staff.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.

The displayed Basic plan has 24/7 live-chat platform support; that is not a staffed demand-planning service.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A UK planning office for this DIY option is not established.

Not confirmed. A separate UK legal entity selling this DIY planning workflow is not established.

Shopify’s displayed Basic platform support is 24/7 live chat; internal planning cover must be arranged by the brand.¹⁶

Not confirmed. No named UK brand is verified as a customer of this exact manual-reorder workflow.

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. No single public all-in tariff is established for this DIY workflow.

If the stack stays unchanged, no new planner subscription is introduced, but existing bills and the team’s work still count.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A minimum spend for the complete existing-stack scenario is not established.

Not confirmed. Any incremental cleanup, integration or setup cost is not established.

Not confirmed. A trial for this retained DIY workflow is not applicable as a separate offer.

Not confirmed. The terms of the brand’s existing stack are not established.

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

Nothing recorded yet.