Antevon vs Plex DemandCaster: planning software or a two-week forecast project

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

Plex Supply Chain Planning is cloud demand, supply and inventory planning software for manufacturing and distribution.¹⁵

Plex Supply Chain Planning is a cloud software solution, not a verified outsourced forecasting desk.¹⁴

Plex currently advertises Supply Chain Planning, and its public documentation identifies it as formerly DemandCaster.¹⁴

DemandCaster is a product of Plex by Rockwell Automation, Inc.¹³

DemandCaster is the former name of the current Plex Supply Chain Planning product.¹²

The current product name is Plex Supply Chain Planning, formerly DemandCaster.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 current revenue, SKU or user-size eligibility range was not established.

The product brochure targets manufacturers and distributors.¹⁵

Plex describes a customer selling online and through brick-and-mortar retail partners.¹⁶

The published DemandCaster terms grant worldwide usage rights, subject to export rules and the order form.¹³

Plex is a plausible fit for a team that can own cross-functional planning and ERP-connected data.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 published terms make the customer responsible for data accuracy, quality and legality, without fully allocating mapping and cleanup work.¹³

Not confirmed. Ownership of planning-parameter and event-context upkeep was not established.

Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the subscription 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.

Not confirmed. Current configurable forecast dimensions and time buckets were not established.

Not confirmed. A current configurable or maximum demand-forecast horizon was 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.

The brochure lists external POS data sources, without proving any named UK retailer feed or retailer-level sell-through forecast.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Named UK retailer or EDI-provider coverage was 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 brochure lists 4-P’s Demand Shaping, without specifying retailer promotion profitability or uplift modelling.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Current new-product forecasting and launch workflow details were not established.

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 brochure lists automated replenishment-order recommendations, safety-stock computation and time-phased inventory planning.¹⁵

Plex advertises replenishment-order recommendations and ERP exchange, but supplier PO creation and sending were not established.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Who creates, approves and sends supplier purchase orders was not established.

Not confirmed. DemandCaster-specific minimum-order-quantity rules were not established.

The product page advertises system-calculated recommendations for lead times alongside order requirements and safety stock.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-budget-constrained purchasing optimizer was not established.

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

The product brochure lists lot-expiration consideration, but does not establish full batch traceability or FEFO execution.¹⁵

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 named Shopify connector was not established.

Not confirmed. A named Amazon marketplace connector was not established.

Not confirmed. Named 3PL connectors and their read/write scope were not established.

Plex SCP directly integrates with Plex ERP and MES, while the brochure advertises flexible one-way and two-way ERP data integration.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A documented CSV import/export interface for this current product 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.

Not confirmed. The allocation of forecast, cash and purchase approval authority was not established.

The BirdRock case describes the customer team reviewing forecasts and analysing issues; no general outsourced exception-management service was established.¹⁶

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 current time to a first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

Setup depends on connecting operational data, with the implementation work and ownership needing an agreed scope.¹⁴

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 public terms include standard support and distinguish upgraded support and consulting work orders.¹³

Rockwell Automation describes a Milton Keynes office, but a dedicated UK Plex SCP team was not established.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity specifically for this product was not established.

The published product terms offer phone and web-conference support from 8am to 6pm ET on weekdays, excluding US holidays.¹³

Not confirmed. A named UK Plex Supply Chain Planning customer was 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

Pricing is quoted through an order form; no public subscription amount was established.¹³

The terms describe subscription fees set by order form, payable in USD by default, excluding taxes.¹³

Not confirmed. A minimum subscription spend, user count or SKU commitment was not established.

Not confirmed. A current setup or integration fee was not established.

Not confirmed. A current production-product free trial and its terms were not established.

The published terms leave the initial term to the order form and provide twelve-month automatic renewals with at least sixty days’ non-renewal notice.¹³

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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