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In love with Sachin

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To all Cricket lovers, Yesterday, along with each Indian, crowd in the chidambaram stadium must have been roaring like a national anthem for Sachin's ton of tons. Considering Sehwag not playing this game due to injury, the crowd was excited to see another mesmerizing spell by Sachin, an another round of great entertainment as they saw in Nagpur in the last match against SA. In absence of Sehwag, Darren Sammy and team had some different plans for playing against India and especially against Sachin. Here comes relatively less experienced Ravi Rampaul with a wonderful delivery of his first over and the last encounter to which Sachin did not have a good response but still we all had hopes as usual when umpire refused Ravi's apeal. I sighed in relief. But what I see in next one minute was more shocking, which will take the wind out of your sails. Sachin turned back and started walking towards pavilion one match away from his 100th 100s. For a while I could not understand what h

Demand – Purchase Order – Receipt

Demand – Purchase Order – Receipt is a typical process of information flow from retail stores to the vendors and back from there. Apart from these, most of the full fledged retail lead organizations may include standard practices which may become more complex down the line. But in general, most of the organizations follow the following flow – 1.        Regular Replenishment Orders (for all types of stock items at the retail stores) are created through automated systems which take care of demand planning. Most of the old retailers have the customized complex algorithms to take care of this. While with evolving technologies, packages such as JDA, Oracle and SAP have lot of inbuilt complex algorithms which the lead organizations can customize according to the different parameters required by the retailer. 2.        Most of the times, these replenishment orders are generated on the basis of forecasted demand. Accordingly, the purchase orders are created against the vendor. Forecasted dema