Volume in BEx Query

Hello all,
   I am on BW 3.5.  I have a report that tracks material volume.  It is working fine.  However, there is one issue.  Right now, I calculate volume everytime inventory moves (volume is a key figure in the 0IC_C03 cube).  Essentially what I do is with every relevant material movement I do a lookup into the material master and get the volume.  Then I populate it into the cube and report on it.  This is working fine.
   The issue is that volume is (suprisingly) not constant.  It changes over time for the same material (go figure - that makes no sense to me, but whatever) so that the numbers are sometimes inconsistent between months.  For example, 100 units of material 123 show a volume of 100 ft3 in April and the same 100 units show a volume of only 50 ft3 in May because someone changed the volume in the R/3 material master.
   So what I need is to base all my volume calculations (both current and historical) on what is in the material master at report runtime.  It's like I need a navigational attribute for volume.  I already have a formula variable.  But while it works at the material level, it is blank if material isn't showing in the report.  Most of the users want to see things at the material group level.  I do not know a way of turning volume (a key figure) into a navigational attribute, or better yet, of making a formula variable work when the characteristic it is tied to is not showing in the report (i.e. it aggregates with report navigation).
   Can anyone help me out here?
   Thanks.
Dave

I could think of a alternative solution and that is use of Vitual Key Figure.
In this case, Volume will be a virtual KF which will be populated at query run time using abap code and you can look up volume value from material master in the code.
But use of Virtual KF will make query execution slow as the code runs for each record.
Regards,
Gaurav

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