Best Practices - Help required

I am struggling to understand how Best Practices (warehousing ) could be implemented for SME's (UK) in ECC 6.
Any advice, pointers to documents which are practical would be useful.
Is there a set of steps that one needs to follow in order to map the existing client business process and then superimpose that on the best practice templates chosen?

Hi Hari,
The Best source of documentation for the Best Business Practices is help.sap.com. You will find the configuration guides, Business scenarion power point presentations and the BPP's of the scenarios there.
Procedure:
browse help.sap.com
Click on SAP Best Practices
Click on Baseline packages
Click on Based on SAP ECC 6.00
link is as below: http://help.sap.com/content/bestpractices/baseline/bestp_baseline_baseline_V600.htm
Hope this will help you.
Thanks and Regards,
Sambhaji
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