Antevon vs SAP Business One: 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

SAP Business One is a business-management ERP, including financials, purchasing and inventory.¹²

SAP Business One is ERP software with cloud, on-premise and mobile deployment options.¹²

SAP offers partner consulting and implementation services for Business One.²⁰

SAP Business One is currently advertised as an ERP offer for small and midsize businesses.¹²

SAP Business One is an SAP product in the SAP SE group.¹⁴

SAP B1 is used as a shortened name for SAP Business One.¹³

The official product name is SAP Business One.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

SAP positions Business One for small and midsize businesses without a verified revenue threshold.¹²

SAP names wholesale distribution, light manufacturing, retail and professional services.¹²

Third-party Shopify integration is offered for B2B and B2C ecommerce operations.¹⁵

SAP advertises Business One in 170 countries and 28 languages.¹²

SAP’s implementation training expects a customer project manager and functional leads to work with the implementation partner.¹⁶

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

SAP’s implementation guidance normally assigns legacy-data cleanup to the customer and migration to the consultant.¹⁶

An operator defines and updates the planning settings used by MRP.¹⁸

Not confirmed. Implementation inclusion in a standard Business One licence fee was not established from the public sources read.

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.

Business One can generate forecast quantities from historical sales or accept manually entered quantities.¹⁷

Forecast quantities are entered by item in daily, weekly or monthly periods.¹⁸

Business One can generate separate item forecasts for selected warehouses.¹⁷

The user sets the forecast start and end dates; no maximum forecast horizon was verified.¹⁸

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.

Documented native forecast inputs include sales orders or deliveries and A/R invoices, not a verified retailer POS sell-through feed.¹⁷

TrueCommerce offers third-party EDI integration for Business One sales orders, invoices, shipments and ASNs.¹³

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

Not confirmed. Native promotion-uplift and retailer-promotion profitability modelling was not established from the public sources read.

Not confirmed. Native new-product launch or analogous-product forecasting was not established from the public 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

MRP recommends purchases, production and transfers using demand, stock and planned supply.¹⁸

Users can create purchase orders from MRP recommendations.¹⁸

An operator reviews MRP recommendations and creates the order documents; supplier sending and follow-up were not established as an included service.¹⁸

MRP allows an operator to specify a minimum order quantity.¹⁸

Order multiples let MRP recommend purchases in the configured lot size.¹⁸

Per-item lead time is used for buying or production timing.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. A cash-budget constraint inside Business One MRP recommendations was not established from the public sources read.

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

Business One supports batch records with expiry and manufacturing dates.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.

Codeless Platforms offers third-party Shopify connectivity for orders, customers, products, stock, prices and fulfilment updates.¹⁵

Codeless Platforms offers an Amazon Seller Central connector with orders into Business One and order-status, inventory and price updates back to Amazon.²³

SAP documents subsidiary integration between Business One instances and a headquarters location.²⁰

Not confirmed. A current native CSV import/export workflow for the required forecast and transaction objects was not established from the public sources read.

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. Ongoing forecast, cash-budget and purchase-approval ownership in a selected support or service contract was not established from the public sources read.

SAP’s implementation guidance assigns production acceptance sign-off to the customer.¹⁶

The MRP workflow expects operator judgement and permits changes before orders are created.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

Not confirmed. Time to the first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established from the public sources read.

Implementation depends on partner configuration, a customer project team, data migration, testing and training.¹⁶

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 researched SEIDOR UK route requires a support and maintenance contract with the vendor.²¹

SAP lists a UK office at Clockhouse Place in Feltham.²⁴

SAP identifies SAP (UK) Ltd as a subsidiary of SAP SE.²⁵

Not confirmed. Business One support hours and SLA for the selected UK partner contract was not established from the public sources read.

Codestone reported a Business One support and hosted-platform engagement for Bristol-based Somerset Toiletry in October 2021.²⁶

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

The optional Codeless Platforms Shopify integration has a public starting price, not a fixed implementation-inclusive total.¹⁵

The researched SEIDOR UK Business One route requires a quotation based on business requirements.²¹

SAP documents named-user licensing.²²

SAP describes cloud deployment for a monthly licence fee.²⁰

Not confirmed. A current minimum user count or spend for the selected UK package was not established from the public sources read.

Not confirmed. A published mandatory core setup or implementation fee was not established from the public sources read.

The 2019 Business One 10.0 licence guide documents a 31-day trial company, not a verified current free hosted trial offer.²²

Not confirmed. The core UK contract commitment, renewal and cancellation terms was not established from the public sources read.

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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