BPM Process with offline adobe forms - NW CE 7.2 SP3

Hi experts, I have to develop the following scenario and I still don´t know the correct way that I should follow, I have already created the Process Development DC, the XSD and the XDP files, I have also put the XSD and XDP files into portal drive.
Scenario:
1 - This scenario should be started by a webservice that will be created too, this webservice have to receive data that will be used in the whole process.
2 - Call some RFCs on ECC to retrieve data to prefill the off-line adobe form and the e-mail of the external destinations.
3 - Send adobe form for e-mail to some external destinations.
4 - Receive and read adobe form by a dedicated e-mail.
5 - Send each adobe form by e-mail to an internal user that could approve or reject the document.
6 - Call some RFC to approved documents.
7 - Send e-mail back to the receivers to notify about the document if it was approved or rejected.

The problem is that I am trying to model but a lot of doubts about are breaking me, I need some process sample to follow.
Know I am creating a process model, I have read about the Process Modeling Approaches but still don´t know wich I should use to my model:
Top-Down Approach
Bottom-Up Approach
Inside-Out Approach
Taking into account that this process starts on ECC and my process will get data from ECC, prefill and send off line adobe forms by e-mail to get external data to send on ECC after it, with approach I should choice ?
Does anybody have any process model sample to send me ? It will help me a lot.

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