Starting Inventory Management in BW

Hi experts,
I am starting Inventory Management in BW and using the How to Guide.
I understand how important the Stock init is and the need to block postings or to init during a period when no sotck movements occur.
This is especially important for us as we have stocks in Europe and Stock in the US.
Though I am still a little confused of during which steps of the Init the stock movements have to be blocked.
Here is how I processed in Dev system:
1- Activated necessary BI content in BW and 2LIS_03_ datasources in R/3 (transaction LBWE)
2- Intilialized the current stock in R/3 (transaction MCNB)
3- Executed INIT Infopackage to load current stock PSA table and then DTP (Extraction mode set to Initial Non-Cumulative for Non-Cumulative Values) to load the 0IC_C03 Cube
4- Deleted 03 Setup Tables in R/3 (transaction SBIW)
5- Initialized 03 Setup Tables (transaction SBIW)
6- Executed INIT Infopackage to load Good Movements PSa and then DTP to 0IC_C03 Cube (delta extraction)
7- Handle Delta movements in Process chain
Here are the questions I have:
- Am I missing any steps (except stock valuation part)?
- Do Stock posting have to be blocked during all these phases ? Or can they be queued in delta queue before doing the INIT of Infopackage (Step 6)?
- There doesn't seem to go through step 5 restricting on plant/stock. So I need to init for all plants (seems to be only possible to restrict on posting date or document) and make sure all postings are blocked right?
Thanks a lot for your answeres.
Olivier

See if this helps:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/99/27443cbe062e59e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

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Other terms
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