Process Chain Step by Step

Hi to all,
Please can any one tell me, how to designe Process Chain Step by Step.
Or any Document Related to that.
i shall be thankful to you for this.
Regards
Pavneet Rana

Hi Rana,
Have you searched in the SDN or Google. this is the general topic was discussed n no of times and lots of documents are there on this.
Check the below link which givs step by step
Process chain creation - step by step
/people/juergen.noe/blog/2008/01/11/process-chain-creation--step-by-step
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BI/Processchainscreationandmonitoring
Regards
KP
Edited by: prashanthk on Jan 19, 2011 5:08 PM

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