SAS/OR User’s Guide: Bill of Material Processing provides a complete reference for the bill of material processing (BOM) tools in SAS/OR software. This book serves as the primary documentation for the BOM procedure and the bill of material postprocessing macros. Chapter 3 describes the BOM procedure, and Chapter 4 describes the bill of material postprocessing macros.

This chapter describes the organization of this book and the conventions that are used in the text and example code. To gain full benefit from using this book, you should familiarize yourself with the information presented in this section and refer to it when needed. The section Additional Documentation for SAS/OR Software refers to other documents that contain related information.