.TH bom "" "" "/act/opr Command"
.PC "Produce bill-of-materials from parts list"
.B bom
.PP
.II "bill of materials"
The command
.B bom
is part of the accounting/operations system included with
.BR /rdb .
It creates a bill-of-materials table from table
.BR part ,
which holds all of the items that are required to make a product,
and the table
.BR saleitem ,
which holds all sales items from the sales department.
This tells how many items must be manufactured or purchased
to meet current sales orders.
.PP
.B bom
writes its output into table
.BR bom .
.SH Example
Assume the table
.B saleitem
contains the following data:
.DM
Order Number Code Backord Qty Price    Total Name
----- ------ ---- ------- --- -----  ------- ----
   1    1     rdb      10   1  1500  1500.00 /rdb 
   2    1     rdb      10   2  1500  3000.00 /rdb 
   3    1     rdb      10   5  1500  7500.00 /rdb 
   3    2     act      10  10  1500 15000.00 /act 
   4    1     rdb      10   5  1500  7500.00 /rdb 
   4    2     rdb      10  19  1500 28500.00 /rdb 
   5    1     rdb      10   5  1500  7500.00 /rdb 
   5    2     act      10   9  1500 13500.00 /act 
.DE
.PP
Assume, too, that the table
.B part
contains the following
data:
.DM
Code    Subpart Count
------- ------- -------
act     binder  2
act     actdoc  2
act     f1      10
rdb     binder  2
rdb     rdbdoc  2
rdb     f1      10
.DE
.PP
The command
.B bom
reads these tables to produce the following summary table:
.DM
Code    Qty
------- -------
actdoc       38
binder      112
f1          560
rdbdoc       74
.DE
.PP
You can see that we have orders for 19 copies of
.BR act s
in the
.B salesitem
table.
Each package has two documents, for a total of 38
.BR actdoc s.
Note that table
.B bom
lists 560 floppies ((19 act x 10) + (37 rdb x 10)).
We can order these, regardless
of which software packages are being put onto them.
.SH "See Also"
.B
act
.R
.SO bom