Best approach to change historichal data???

Hi experts,
As a requirement of our project, R/3 will periodically do a material (key) value change upon existing product, that is, update the product code with a new one that substitutes the old one.
Ex: Material A (code M10013) turns Material B (code M10014).
We want to realign all historichal data stored in BW from the old material code (M10013) to the new one (M10014).
Question is whether there is a standard way to do this within BW.
If not, what would be the best approach to dela with this?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Best regards,
Enric
Note: I have faced this same requirement in APO, and there's a Realignment functionality to convert CVCs, but I'm not sure if we have a similar tool in BW.

Hi,
Use Data Mart Concept.
Load all the historical data of the old with the new material code to a new ODS
then again pull the data from the new ODS to the existing one.
hope this helps,
regards
suresh

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Hi Rahul
regarding your 'Unicode doubt"' some ideas:
1) The Upgrade Master Guide SAP ERP 6.0 and the Master Guide SAP ERP 6.0 include introductory information. Among other, these guides reference the SAP Service Marketplace-location http://service.sap.com/unicode@sap.
2) In Unicode@SAP can you find several (content-mighty) FAQs
Conclusion from the FAQ: First of all your strategy needs to follow your busienss model (which we can not see from here):
Example. The "Upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005"-FAQ includes interesting remarks in section "DO CUSTOMERS NEED TO CONVERT TO A UNICODE-COMPLIANT ENVIRONMENT?"
"...The Unicode conversion depends on the customer situation....
... - If your organization runs a single code page system prior to the upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005, then the use of Unicode is not mandatory. ..... However, using Unicode is recommended if the system is deployed globally to facilitate interfaces and connections.
- If your organization uses Multiple Display Multiple Processing (MDMP) .... the use of Unicode is mandatory for the mySAP ERP 2005 upgrade....."
In the Technical Unicode FAQ you read under "What are the advantages of Unicode ...", that "Proper usage of JAVA is only possible with Unicode systems (for example, ESS/MSS or interfaces to Enterprise Portal). ....
=> Depending on the fact if your systems support global processes, or depending on your use of Java Applications, your strategy might need to look different
3) In particular in view of your 3rd option, I recommend you to take a look into these FAQs, if not already done.
Remark: mySAP ERP 2005 is the former name of the application, which is named SAP ERP 6.0, now
regards, and HTH, Andreas R

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