Parallel workflow instances

Hi Experts,
Need help for the scenario on which i am working..
SAP System: ECC 5.0
Scenario:
1) Material master workflow is triggered through a customized event and we are passing material number
and Sales Org as the object key for Business Object.
3) Based on the Sales Org, plants will determined using a background task.
2) After this we have to send tasks(for creating a view) to the agent, for a plant and material combination
and these tasks should be in parallel. number of plants can be more than 100.
3) Once all these parallel tasks is completed then workflow should continue .
4) other workflow task based on material and sales org combination...
For sending parallel task for a material and plant combinations (Point 3), i can trigger a seperate workflow.
so there will be n instance of this new workflow based on material and plant combination.
But my concern is How workflow will know that all the workflow instances of new workflow is completed
for the material for which main workflow is triggered.
Please suggest.
Please let me know if there is a some other way for sending parallel task from the workflow..
Thanks,
V

I will create a new step and pass the remaining plants using the same Table-Driven Dynamic Parallel Processing .
Again i have a issue, there will be multiple parallel task created but how i will know which particular task is related to which plant.
I want to pass the plant name in the Task description, how i can do that...
I will a create a new thread for this issue.
Regards,
Vargi

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