The design/manufacture support system has a self company/correspondent
parts number correspondence storing unit for storing the correspondence
between parts numbers of self company and correspondent parts, a self
company parts bill storage unit for storing a structure of parts of a
self company product, a correspondent parts bill storage unit for storing
a structure of parts purchased from a correspondent, a representative
part creation unit for creating a representative part from the
correspondence between self company and correspondent parts numbers
stored in the self company/correspondent parts number correspondence
storing unit, and a parts bill creation unit for creating a parts bill
from the representative part created by the representative part creation
unit, the self company parts bill stored in the self company parts bill
storage unit and the correspondent parts bill stored in the correspondent
parts bill storage unit.