Antevon vs Sage 200: business software or a 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

Sage 200 combines accounting, purchasing, sales and stock management.¹²

Sage 200 is software used by licensed users, with optional partner services and add-ons.¹³

Sage 200 remains an active offer, with Standard and Professional editions.¹²

The Sage 200 terms identify The Sage Group plc or its licensors as owners of the Sage product marks.¹³

Not confirmed. Historical aliases were not independently reverified in current primary sources.

Sage 200 is Sage’s business-management software.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

Sage targets growing small and medium businesses, without a verified revenue or SKU threshold.¹²

Sage describes Sage 200 as suitable for growing businesses in all industries, not beauty alone.¹²

Partner integrations support ecommerce and marketplace workflows.¹⁴

The UK/Ireland subscription terms expressly cover UK and Republic of Ireland customers.¹³

This fits a team able to maintain stock and supplier settings and review purchase suggestions.¹⁵

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 remains responsible for the accuracy, quality, reliability and legality of data it supplies.¹³

The documented stock-record workflow has the operator enter supplier lead times and usual order quantities.¹⁸

Reseller professional and third-party services sit outside the Sage subscription agreement; included implementation scope needs checking.¹³

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.

Optional Netstock Predictor forecasts can be by product, group, sales channel or key customer, in weekly or monthly buckets.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Current core demand-forecast granularity was not established; old Manufacturing planning help is explicitly retained for older versions.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A current supported forward forecast horizon was not established for core Sage 200 or the optional Netstock package.

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. Sales orders and stock movements are evidenced, but named retailer consumer sell-through feeds and forecasts were not established.

Not confirmed. Generic procurement/EDI integration is advertised, but no named UK retailer document map or sell-through feed was established.¹⁴

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

Optional Netstock Predictor lets users adjust forecasts for past and future promotions and events.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Core promotion-uplift demand modelling was not established.

Not confirmed. New-product demand forecasting and launch modelling were not established in the sources 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

Sage 200 can suggest purchase orders to replenish stock and fulfil outstanding or back-to-back sales orders.¹⁵

Confirmed suggestions can be converted into purchase orders and consolidated by supplier.¹⁵

An operator generates confirmed purchase orders; a managed supplier-submission or follow-up service was not established.¹⁵

Professional records supplier minimum order quantities, but the documented MOQ is informational and does not stop smaller orders.¹⁸

Professional stores the number of days between placing a stock order and delivery.¹⁸

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-constrained purchase optimisation was not established.

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

Professional supports batch or serial records with Sell By and Use By dates; expiry-aware forecasting was not established.¹⁹

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.

Shopify can connect to Sage 200 through the optional Realisable IMan integration platform.¹⁴

Amazon integration is advertised through optional Realisable IMan, rather than established as a native Sage 200 connector.¹⁴

Realisable advertises Sage 200 integration with third-party logistics and warehouse software.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A named external ERP-to-ERP connector and its data mapping were not established.

Standard can import and export stock-item records using CSV files.²¹

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 documented workflow requires the operator to confirm purchase quantities; demand-forecast and cash approval authority were not established.¹⁵

The operator can amend a suggested quantity, price and supplier before confirming a purchase order.¹⁵

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 measured or guaranteed time from supplied data to a reviewed decision-ready forecast was established.

Stock imports require the correct file structure, mandatory fields and existing related records.²¹

Replenishment generation requires a supplier and a minimum reorder level of at least one for stock-level replenishment.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.

For reseller purchases, the reseller normally supplies first-tier technical support.¹³

Sage (UK) Ltd’s terms give a registered office in Newcastle upon Tyne; staffing at that address was not verified.¹³

For a UK subscription, the terms identify Sage (UK) Ltd, company 01045967, as Sage.¹³

Not confirmed. Applicable UK support opening hours for a selected Sage 200 partner package were not established.¹²

Not confirmed. A current named UK beauty or wellness Sage 200 deployment was not verified from non-testimonial evidence.

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

A configured Sage 200 implementation needs a scoped quote; no usable Sage-owned public licence amount was established.²⁰

Sage 200 subscriptions are time-based, with a valid named subscription for each user and separately selected modules.¹³

Not confirmed. A universal minimum licence spend, seat count or module package was not established.

Not confirmed. Setup, migration, configuration, training and connector fees were not established as a complete package.

The terms permit a discretionary Standard-only trial with automatic charging at its end, but do not establish a current trial duration.¹³

The order sets any fixed term; fixed terms auto-renew unless notice is given, while subscriptions without a fixed term allow 30 days’ written termination 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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