Bill of Materials (BOM)

A Bill of Materials, or BOM, lists the quantities of raw materials, assemblies, sub-components, and parts needed to manufacture a product. A BOM can be used to communicate between manufacturing partners, multiple facilities within the organization, or with a single manufacturing plant.

The BOM record is available when the Advanced Bill of Materials feature is enabled on the Items & Inventory subtab at Setup > Company > Setup Tasks > Enable Features.

In the user interface, you can access the BOM record at Lists > Supply Chain > Bills of Materials.

For information about working with this record in the user interface, see Advanced Bill of Materials.

The BOM record is defined in the listAcct (accounting) XSD.

Supported Operations

The following operations can be used with the BOM record.

Note:

You can also use the asynchronous equivalents of SOAP web services list operations. For information about asynchronous operations, see SOAP Web Services Asynchronous Operations. For more information about request processing, see Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Request Processing.

Field Definitions

The SOAP Schema Browser includes definitions for all body fields, sublist fields, search filters, and search joins available to this record. For details, see the SOAP Schema Browser’s BOM reference page.

Note:

For information on using the SOAP Schema Browser, see SOAP Schema Browser.

Usage Notes

Consider the following information when you work with BOM and BOM revision records.

There is a 1:N relationship between a BOM and its revisions, and you cannot create overlapping revisions for a BOM. For example, if you create revision R1 without specifying effective start and end dates, and later you want to create a new revision (R2) with an effective start date of February 1, first you must update the effective end date of R1 and set the value to January 31. After setting the effective end date of R1, you can create R2. For more information, see Updating BOM Revision Record Dates.
You can return the values of the Restrict to Assemblies and Restrict to Location lists by using the getSelectValue operation even if the Available for all Assemblies and the Available for All Locations boxes are selected on the record. For information about working with the getSelectValue operation, see getSelectValue.

Sample Code

In the following example, a new BOM record is created.

Java

              public void bomRecord() throws Exception {
        Bom bomRec = new Bom();
        bomRec.setName("List of Ingredients");
        bomRec.setIsInactive(true);
        bomRec.setAvailableForAllAssemblies(true);
        bomRec.setAvailableForAllLocations(true);
        bomRec.setMemo("list of ingredients");

        c.addRecord(bomRec);
    }

SOAP Request

                <soapenv:Body>  
         <add xmlns="urn:messages_2018_1.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">   
            <record xsi:type="ns7:Bom" xmlns:ns7="urn:accounting_2018_1.lists.webservices.netsuite.com">    
               <ns7:name xsi:type="xsd:string">List of Ingredients</ns7:name>    
               <ns7:isInactive xsi:type="xsd:boolean">true</ns7:isInactive>    
               <ns7:memo xsi:type="xsd:string">list of ingredients</ns7:memo>    
               <ns7:availableForAllAssemblies xsi:type="xsd:boolean">true</ns7:availableForAllAssemblies>    
               <ns7:availableForAllLocations xsi:type="xsd:boolean">true</ns7:availableForAllLocations>   
            </record>  
         </add> 
      </soapenv:Body>

SOAP Response

                <soapenv:Body>
         <addResponse xmlns="urn:messages_2018_1.platform.webservices.netsuite.com">
            <writeResponse>
               <platformCore:status isSuccess="true" xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_1.platform.webservices.netsuite.com"/>
               <baseRef internalId="10" type="bom" xsi:type="platformCore:RecordRef" xmlns:platformCore="urn:core_2018_1.platform.webservices.netsuite.com"/>
            </writeResponse>
         </addResponse>
      </soapenv:Body>