This function enables you to make organizational changes in the product structure, customer structure, or sales structure for data that has already been posted. In other words, you can use this function to change data created in the past. For example, if the material group in the material master changes for some products, these products can be adapted via realignment to match the new material group. Realignments can also be used in reporting to represent past data in the most recently assigned material group.

In this IDES process, the sales organization 0001 Sales Org. DE for 1996 is changed, as of 1997, to sales organization 1000 Germany Frankfurt. This adapts all sales data for 1996 for the customer 1360 A.S.S. in Munich to match the new sales organization 1000 Germany Frankfurt.

To carry out the realignments, you need to carry out the following steps:

1. Create the realignment run
2. Create a realignment request
3. Define a conversion rule
4. Execute the realignment run