# Antevon vs ToolsGroup: planning software or a forecast audit

Canonical: https://www.antevon.com/compare/toolsgroup

Checked against ToolsGroup’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 21 Oct 2026.

## The short answer

Pick ToolsGroup if you want forecasting software for a team coordinating supply, sales and operations [19, 28]. Pick Antevon for a two-week, fixed-fee forecast audit [3].

## Who each one fits

ToolsGroup targets planning teams in large businesses and complex supply networks [14].

Antevon serves independent beauty and skincare brands in the UK and EU [4]. Its audit fits brands selling through retailers, or preparing to, with nobody running the forecast full-time [3, 5].

## When ToolsGroup is the better choice

- Pick ToolsGroup when your team owns setup and needs stock planning and restocking across warehouses and stores [26].
- If supplier delivery dates vary, ToolsGroup's stock models account for that uncertainty [26].

## When Antevon is the better choice

- Pick Antevon when you need buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with the money impact attached [3].
- Pick Antevon when you want to use the delivered files without adopting software or paying for a login [5].

## How they differ

Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call [5]. You supply a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions [5]. Antevon cleans the data as part of the audit [5].

Antevon delivers two Excel files to keep [5]. The forecast gives a number for each product, retailer and month [5]. ToolsGroup forecasts how much of each product each location might need, and how likely each amount is [20].

ToolsGroup advertises connectors for business systems including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics [21]. In ToolsGroup's KIKO Milano example, the planning team checks flagged issues before approving the restocking plan [17].

ToolsGroup serves customers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas and Asia Pacific [14]. ToolsGroup's support response and resolution times depend on your contract tier [29]. ToolsGroup provides a help portal, documentation, training and access to experts [29].

## Side by side

Rows are the questions UK beauty brands ask us. Each line is a fact from the company’s own public pages. Check this comparison: sources and dates below.

### What it is

- Antevon: Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project. [3]
- Antevon: The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit. [3]
- Antevon: Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.
- Antevon: The public trading name is Antevon. [1]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup is an enterprise supply chain planning software option. [16]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup delivers its planning solutions as software as a service. [28]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A current standard outsourced planning package was not verified.
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup currently markets Decion, which it launched on 27 May 2026. [15]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup identifies Accel-KKR as its financial backer. [14]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. The complete controlling ownership and shareholding percentages were not established.
- ToolsGroup: SO99+, JustEnough and Evo now sit under Decion, while their underlying capabilities continue. [13]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup is the supplier name. [12]

### Who it is for

- Antevon: The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue. [4]
- Antevon: Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so. [3]
- Antevon: The stated service audience is in the UK and EU. [4]
- Antevon: The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast. [5]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup targets enterprise planning teams and complex networks; no minimum revenue or SKU threshold was verified. [14]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup serves retail, manufacturing, food and beverage, wholesale distribution, aftermarket parts and consumer goods. [13]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup publishes a cosmetics forecasting and replenishment case study for KIKO Milano. [17]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises retail planning across stores and fulfilment channels. [18]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup describes customers and teams across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. [14]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup positions its software for planning teams coordinating forecasting, supply, sales and operations. [19]

### Who builds the forecast

- Antevon: The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.
- Antevon: On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.
- Antevon: The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login. [5]
- Antevon: Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge. [5]
- Antevon: The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep. [5]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Responsibility for data extraction, cleansing, mapping and feed upkeep was not established.
- ToolsGroup: The KIKO case describes coverage levels defined by the customer for each store. [17]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Whether implementation is included in the quoted subscription or billed separately was not established.

### What the forecast covers

- Antevon: The forecast is by product, retailer and month. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises probability distributions for each SKU-location. [20]
- ToolsGroup: Its food and beverage offer describes daily SKU-location forecasting. [21]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A standard maximum forecast horizon was not established from the public pages read.

### Retailers and sell-through

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.
- Antevon: The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it. [7]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- ToolsGroup: Demand sensing supports sell-out and point-of-sale inputs; named-retailer sell-in forecasting was not established. [27]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Named retailer EDI providers, messages and read/write support were not verified.

### Promotions and launches

- Antevon: The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range. [3]
- Antevon: The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds. [6]
- Antevon: 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.
- Antevon: Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history. [3]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises promotion planning that weighs demand uplift, inventory, prices and margin. [23]
- ToolsGroup: Its food and beverage offer describes launch-demand modelling without sales history and product phase-in/phase-out logic. [21]

### Orders to suppliers

- Antevon: The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact. [3]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.
- Antevon: Purchase orders are inputs to the audit. [3]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step. [4]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.
- Antevon: The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast. [7]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises replenishment recommendations that consider demand, capacity, inventory and operational constraints. [22]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Who creates, sends and follows up supplier purchase orders depends on the deployment and was not established.
- ToolsGroup: The Retail Replenishment Suite datasheet lists minimums, multiples and MOQs as planning constraints. [25]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises inventory models that account for uncertain lead times and operational constraints. [26]

### Cash

- Antevon: Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.
- ToolsGroup: Supply planning includes working-capital goals, but a hard purchasing-cash limit was not verified. [24]

### Batches and shelf life

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.
- ToolsGroup: The food and beverage solution plans stock around freshness windows and expiry; batch traceability was not verified. [21]

### What it connects to

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A named Shopify connector and its data scope were not verified.
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A named Amazon marketplace connector and its data scope were not verified.
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A named 3PL connector and its read/write scope were not verified.
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises pre-built connectors and APIs for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and other ERP/WMS systems. [21]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A documented current CSV import/export format was not verified.

### What your team still does

- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.
- Antevon: The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.
- ToolsGroup: Decion automates approved actions within business guardrails, so automation does not imply unrestricted purchasing authority. [15]
- ToolsGroup: In the KIKO example, the planning team manually verifies flagged exceptions before validating the replenishment plan. [17]

### Getting started

- Antevon: The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment. [3]
- Antevon: The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14. [3]
- Antevon: The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar. [3]
- Antevon: The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions. [5]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. No standard time to the first reviewed, decision-ready forecast was established.
- ToolsGroup: Implementation timing depends on scope, data complexity, integrations and selected capabilities, with a phased rollout possible. [13]

### Support and UK presence

- Antevon: Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast. [5]
- Antevon: The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14. [5]
- Antevon: The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs. [5]
- Antevon: Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.
- Antevon: Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379. [2]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup says support response and resolution times depend on the contract tier. [29]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup advertises a help portal, documentation, training and access to experts. [29]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A staffed ToolsGroup-owned UK office was not verified.
- ToolsGroup: Companies House lists TOOLSGROUP UK OPERATIONS LIMITED, number 13636066, as active with a London registered office. [30]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Published UK-specific support hours and time-zone coverage were not established.
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup publishes a responsive-pricing case study for UK retailer Laithwaites. [31]

### How it is charged

- Antevon: Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call. [8]
- Antevon: Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour. [10]
- Antevon: The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed. [8]
- Antevon: Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery. [8]
- Antevon: Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge. [10]
- Antevon: The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count. [10]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.
- Antevon: There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data. [5]
- Antevon: Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.
- Antevon: The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms. [2]
- Antevon: The monthly desk is optional after the audit. [10]
- Antevon: The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription. [10]
- Antevon: The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice. [8]
- ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup directs prospective customers to a tailored pricing discussion rather than a public list amount. [13]
- ToolsGroup: Decion pricing depends on selected capabilities, scope, users, integrations and implementation requirements. [13]
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Minimum fee, user count and commercial commitment were not established.
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A setup or implementation fee amount was not established.
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. A public self-serve trial and its terms were not verified.
- ToolsGroup: Not confirmed. Minimum term, billing schedule, renewal and cancellation terms were not established.

### Anything else

- Antevon: Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request. [11]
- ToolsGroup: Nothing recorded yet.

Words used in the table:

- SKU: one product in one size or shade
- MOQ: the smallest order a supplier accepts
- PO: a purchase order, your order to a supplier
- Lead time: how long a supplier takes to deliver
- Sell-through: what shoppers bought at the retailer
- EDI: the data link large retailers use for orders and sales
- GMV: total sales through your online store
- BOM: the list of parts that go into a product
- 3PL: a warehouse company that stores and ships for you
- ERP: a business system for stock, orders and accounts

## Published prices

Each price is the company’s own list price, as its page shows it, with the date we checked it. We do not estimate a price a company does not publish.

### ToolsGroup

- Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).
- Not confirmed. A public numeric Decion plan price was not found on the pages read.

### Antevon

- The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated. [8] Checked 21 Oct 2026.
- The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated. [9] Checked 21 Oct 2026.

## Switching or using both

If your beauty brand uses ToolsGroup but nobody assesses retailer promotions, consider a separately scoped Antevon desk alongside it [5].

## Questions people ask

### How is Antevon's audit fee set?

The fee depends on your product catalogue and retailer count, and Antevon quotes it on the first call [8]. You pay half to book and half on delivery [8].

### How long until I see the audit draft?

Antevon sends the draft on day 13 and holds the walkthrough call on day 14 [3]. The audit clock starts when your data arrives, not when you pay [3].

### Can ToolsGroup plan retailer promotions?

Yes, ToolsGroup's promotion planning weighs expected extra sales, stock, prices and margin [23]. It also accepts data on what shoppers bought at the retailer [27].

### Does ToolsGroup publish its prices?

ToolsGroup does not publish a list amount and directs buyers to a pricing discussion [13]. The quote depends on features, users, system connections and the work needed to set it up [13].

## Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about ToolsGroup comes from a public page, read on the date shown. Antevon's own column follows the same rule.

We read these pages on 21 Oct 2026.

1. Brand kit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/brand
2. Terms · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/terms
3. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit
4. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt
5. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/
6. What a November promotion has to sell to pay back · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/november-promotion-payback
7. Only 2 left, and the factory needs four weeks · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/low-stock-alert-supplier-order-date
8. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit
9. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt
10. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/
11. Privacy · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/privacy
12. ToolsGroup — Always-On Intelligence for Supply Chain Planning, https://www.toolsgroup.com/
13. Decion: AI Decision Intelligence Platform | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/platform/
14. About ToolsGroup - We Help You Deliver Your Promise | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/about/
15. ToolsGroup Introduces New Era of AI-Powered, Self-Steering Supply Chains | ToolsGroup News, https://www.toolsgroup.com/news/toolsgroup-introduces-new-era-of-ai-powered-self-steering-supply-chains/
16. Demand Planning Software & AI Forecasting | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/demand-forecasting-planning/
17. KIKO Milano Customer Story: Retail Planning | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/customer-stories/kiko-milano/
18. Retail Planning Software for Modern Retailers | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/retail-planning/
19. Collaborative Demand Planning Software | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/collaborative-demand-planning/
20. Probabilistic Demand Forecasting Software | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/probabilistic-demand-forecasting/
21. Food & Beverage Supply Chain Planning Software | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/industries/food-and-beverage/
22. Inventory Replenishment Planning Software | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/automated-replenishment/
23. Promotion Optimization Software | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/promotions-planning/
24. Supply Planning Software for Supply Chains | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/supply-planning/
25. Retail Replenishment Suite, https://www.toolsgroup.com/uploads/EN_US_size_Retail_Planning_Replenishment_Suite_Final_1e637acca7.pdf
26. Inventory Optimization Software (MEIO) | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/inventory-optimization-software/
27. Real-Time Demand Sensing Software | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/solutions/demand-sensing-software/
28. Trust & Security | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/trust-security/
29. Customer Support | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/customer-support/
30. TOOLSGROUP UK OPERATIONS LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13636066
31. Laithwaites Customer Story: Responsive Pricing | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/customer-stories/laithwaites/
32. Aston Martin Customer Story: Machine Learning Planning | ToolsGroup, https://www.toolsgroup.com/customer-stories/aston-martin/

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