Antevon vs Trym Consulting: a team-owned planning system, or a 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

Trym is a supply-chain consultancy combining consulting with data-science work.¹²

Trym delivers scoped demand-planning projects with handover to the client.¹⁹

Trym offers outsourced inventory-level strategy with periodic refreshes agreed for the business.¹⁵

Trym currently presents demand-planning and inventory-optimisation services on its public website.¹²

Companies House lists Ashleigh Monks as an active person with significant control of Trym Consulting Limited.¹³

The Companies House control entry records at least 75% of shares and voting rights, plus the right to appoint or remove directors.¹³

Not confirmed. No former trading name or additional alias was verified.

The consultancy trades as Trym Consulting.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

Trym describes its project experience as spanning startups to FTSE 250 companies.¹⁴

Trym says its inventory service has been implemented for manufacturers and retailers.¹⁵

Trym also publishes a healthcare and pharmaceutical D2C growth-planning case.¹⁶

Trym describes project work spanning store networks, wholesale and ecommerce.¹⁷

Trym says it works across the UK and Europe.¹⁸

Trym’s demand-planning process involves the client’s planners and hands over a system for the team to own.¹⁹

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 client provides datasets and operating context while Trym cleans and structures the planning data.¹⁹

The client owns the handed-over system, with optional Trym parameter reviews and periodic inventory-level refreshes.¹⁹

Handover and team enablement are part of Trym’s described demand-planning process.¹⁹

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.

A published manufacturing case describes forecasting future requirements for each part by location.²⁰

Not confirmed. A standard demand-forecast horizon is 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.

Not confirmed. A standard method separating brand sell-in from retailer sell-through is not established.

Not confirmed. A documented retailer EDI connector or explicit file-transfer specification 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

Trym’s demand-planning work recognises promotions and peaks as events requiring cross-team input.¹⁹

Not confirmed. A defined new-product-launch forecasting method is 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

Trym determines a replenishment strategy for individual SKUs, including statistical models or min-max controls.¹⁹

Not confirmed. Purchase-order creation, submission and supplier follow-up are not established.

Not confirmed. Who places purchase orders and follows suppliers is not explicitly established.

Not confirmed. Minimum-order-quantity and supplier case-pack handling are not established.

Trym’s inventory simulation accounts for supply-chain timeliness and quantity conformance when setting safety stock.¹⁵

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.

Trym’s inventory workshops can set availability scenarios around cash-flow considerations and storage constraints.¹⁵

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

Not confirmed. Batch tracking, expiry-date constraints and shelf-life-aware order plans are not established.

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 documented Shopify connector or explicit file-transfer specification was not established.

Not confirmed. A documented Amazon connector or explicit file-transfer specification was not established.

Not confirmed. A documented 3PL connector or explicit file-transfer specification was not established.

Not confirmed. Trym documents bespoke ERP extracts and uploads, but a named ERP connector and transfer method were not established.

Not confirmed. Explicit CSV input or output support was not established; Trym does document data extracts and Excel models.

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.

Trym develops product strategies together with client stakeholders rather than documenting delegated buying authority.¹⁹

Trym’s published approach frees the client’s planners to work with sales, marketing and operations on high-impact events.¹⁹

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

Trym gives four to twelve weeks as the usual demand-planning project range, depending on size, data and complexity.¹⁹

Trym’s demand-planning process uses historic sales, inventory and past forecasts with client-team participation.¹⁹

For inventory optimisation, the client supplies datasets after an initial workshop without needing new software or complex IT integration.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.

Trym offers optional periodic performance reviews, parameter tuning and help onboarding product categories.¹⁹

Companies House records a registered office in Towcester, Northamptonshire.²¹

Trym Consulting Limited, company 12389244, is recorded as an active UK private limited company incorporated on 7 January 2020.²¹

Not confirmed. UK support hours, response commitments and holiday coverage were not established.

Trym publishes an anonymous case describing work for a UK retail and wholesale business.¹⁷

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

Trym’s demand-planning fee requires an individually scoped quotation; no numerical price was found in the pages reviewed.¹⁹

Trym says project cost and time commitments are scoped before work starts.¹⁹

Not confirmed. No minimum project spend or recurring minimum was established.

Not confirmed. A separate setup or onboarding fee was not established.

Not confirmed. No free or paid trial terms were established.

Not confirmed. Minimum duration, renewal and cancellation terms were 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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