nikolov statistical and supply chain consulting

Services

We provide our consulting services in English and French. We are experienced in data entry, management, cleaning and statistical data analysis. We use a broad range of statistical methods (see technical skills).

Specific topics and examples:

• Demand planning: demand forecasting by following performance indexes; new products launch management; promotion and customizing activities management; monthly forecast reviews best practices implementation.
• Supply planning: production planning; warehouse stock level and safety stock calculation, thus optimizing the service level and minimizing working capital; slow movers and liquidation management; vendor management inventory (VMI) implementation projects.
• Surveys: We design the questionnaire of a survey. We could help with marketing and employees survey data.
• Market research: We analyze for example the impact of several advertising strategies on purchase habits. We determine subgroups of customers according to their buying behavior and thus find out the optimal advertizing strategy that could be applied to them.
• Teaching and Training: We provide specifically tailored teaching and training courses. Our courses are on-site workshops or Internet based. We offer teaching in statistics and also support for users on packages SPSS, SAP APO DP, SAP APO SNP and BW (Business Warehouse).

Technical skills

Nikolov Consulting is expert in advanced statistical techniques which include: descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, multiple regression, nonparametric tests, time series models and forecasting, discrete dependent variables models, survival data analysis , bootstrap, Monte Carlo simulation, cluster analysis, neural networks.

Nikolov Consulting holds a license to utilize the professional statistical software package SPSS and the numerical computing environment MATLAB. We are skilled and proficient users of these packages. Your data will always be analyzed with the latest versions available. Additionally Nikolov Consulting has a large key user experience in SAP modules APO DP and APO SNP.