Antevon vs Synergic Technologies: planning systems or a two-week forecast 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

Synergic is a supply-chain and technology consultancy and solutions business.¹²

Planning is offered through diagnostic and implementation consulting projects with ongoing support available.¹⁵

The current website actively offers S&OP consulting, implementation and support.¹⁵

The website identifies Synergic Technologies Limited as its New Zealand legal operator.¹⁴

Synergic Technologies identifies SNO-Tek as its former name.¹³

The option is Synergic Technologies.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

Synergic addresses growing businesses, mid-market consumer-goods companies and enterprise planning teams.¹⁵

Synergic lists food, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, construction and primary-sector work.¹²

The Cauself implementation offer targets grocery suppliers with food-service, export, wholesale and online channels.¹⁶

Synergic says it serves New Zealand and the Pacific from Auckland.¹²

Synergic describes its Cauself implementation and consulting territory as New Zealand and Australia.¹⁶

The growing-business offer is for teams that have outgrown ad hoc planning but may not need a SaaS platform.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

Synergic describes populating planning master data and running a pilot alongside the existing process.¹⁵

The client team is trained to interpret and refresh inventory parameters, with Synergic support.¹⁷

The full S&OP implementation range is described as including assessment, tools, training and ongoing support.¹⁵

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. Forecast time buckets and SKU-by-retailer granularity are not established from the pages read.

The growing-business S&OP offer describes a 36-month forward view.¹⁵

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. Separate retailer sell-in and consumer sell-through forecasting is not established.

Not confirmed. A defined retailer EDI planning connector or import/export route 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

Synergic offers grocery trade-promotion planning linked to demand forecasts and trade spend.¹⁵

Synergic’s Cauself page describes demand planning for new product introductions.¹⁶

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

Inventory consulting produces SKU-level safety stocks, reorder points, order quantities and review cycles.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, placement and supplier follow-up are not established for a defined Synergic planning package.

Not confirmed. Responsibility for placing purchase orders and following up suppliers is not established.

Not confirmed. Handling of minimum order quantities, case packs and supplier order multiples is not established.

Inventory optimisation considers lead time and demand variability when setting SKU policies.¹⁷

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.

IBP connects volume plans to revenue, margin, working capital and cash flow; hard cash-budget optimisation is not established.¹⁵

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

Inventory consulting addresses FIFO policies and shelf-life management; lot-level planning is not established.¹⁷

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 defined Shopify planning connector or import/export route is not established.

Not confirmed. A defined Amazon planning connector or import/export route is not established.

Not confirmed. A defined 3PL planning connector or import/export route is not established.

Inventory optimisation supplies ERP-uploadable parameters without requiring an API connection.¹⁷

For Cauself, Synergic describes ERP transactional-data reads and return of demand, pricing and promotion plans.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A defined CSV planning connector or import/export route is 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.

The client business validates the inventory pilot before any ERP change.¹⁷

Not confirmed. Day-to-day forecast and purchasing exception ownership is not established.

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

SME inventory-optimisation engagements are described as taking 10–14 weeks.¹⁷

The growing-business S&OP full implementation typically takes 3–4 months to go live.¹⁵

Cauself implementations are described as taking 8–13 weeks from kickoff to go-live.¹⁶

The dedicated maturity-assessment page gives a typical 2–4 weeks for mid-market assessments.¹⁸

Assessment timing depends on site count, data availability and stakeholder access.¹⁸

Cauself implementation timing depends on ERP integration complexity and the trade-promotion scope activated at launch.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.

Synergic describes training, parallel running, ongoing SLA support and annual S&OP effectiveness reviews.¹⁵

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office is not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity is not established.

Not confirmed. UK-time-zone planning support hours and response SLAs are not established.

Not confirmed. Named UK planning customers or UK delivery acceptance are 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

Synergic publishes indicative engagement prices, including NZD 25,000–50,000 for inventory optimisation.¹⁷

Inventory optimisation is priced as a scoped consulting engagement rather than a SaaS subscription.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A provider-wide minimum engagement or recurring spend is not established.

Not confirmed. A separate planning setup fee or mandatory software licence fee is not established.

Not confirmed. No public planning trial terms are established.

Not confirmed. Planning contract length, renewal and cancellation terms 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

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