The purpose of the GetBillOfMaterial is to enable an application to request specific Item Bill of Material information from another business application module. The response to the GetBillOfMaterial is the ShowBillOfMaterial. There are many possible business applications in several environments that may use this capability. For example, an MRP, Inventory, or Manufacturing business application could use this to communicate Item Bill of Material information. Is where the information that the BOD message carries is provided, in this case GetBillOfMaterial. The information consists of a Verb and one or more Nouns. The verb (Get) indicates the action to be performed on the Noun (BillOfMaterial).