N-step BADI approval SRM workflow

Hi,
I am implementing N-step approval badi for SC approval using header level workflow (WS14000133) in SRM 5.0. My requirement is to determine the financial analysts responsible for each line item and then the mangement approvers based on their approval limits. Financial analyst need to approve the SC concurrently before the management approvers receives the SC. I developed the code in the BADI to populate the approval table. First time when the SC is created the approval table looks as follows,
Index    Branch    Approver
1         1        FA1
1         2        FA2
1         3        FA3
2         1        MGMT approver1
3         1        MGMT approver2
FA1, FA2 and FA3 recieves the SC. The approval preview looks great. Since this is not item level workflow, FA will approve the SC at the header level.
Here is the Issue--
When FA1, FA2 or FA3 approves the SC, the approval index is incremented by 1 in the workflow, the SC is sent to MGMT approvers based on he index by skipping all the FA approvers.
In this scenario, how to develop logic to send the SC to MGMT approvers only after the FA approvers approves it. I mean how to control the index and branching in BADi. I am using header level workflow.
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Venkat

Hello,
You won't like my answer, but this behaviour is not possible with standard workflows.
First WS14000133 does not handle parallel processing with badi.
You could try the template WS14000141 that was at a time handling the branch number in approval table, but it is not officially support. I mean this is obsolete.
This only parallel processing is provided with template WS14000015, but it's at item level: separated item can be sent in parallel, but it's not working well if you try to send the same item in 2 branch.
You cannot send the same object in a parallel process, the reason is that the application layer cannot properly handle this.
Rgds,
Pierre

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