Most Aerospace and Defense (A&D) companies have developed heavily customized PLM solutions for design and manufacturing because current commercial PLM solutions do not offer complete and efficient out-of-the-box capability for managing accountability between Bill of Materials (BOM) structures. Ten airframe and propulsion OEMs, all members of the A&D PLM Action Group, along with five invited Tier 1 suppliers jointly sponsored and staffed a Multi-view BOM project to reduce the pain associated with managing and reusing data in long lifecycle products by defining and adopting industry standards and best practices, thereby avoiding PLM solution customizations. This presentation, made at PLM Road Map 2019, will show how the team reached a consensus to publish the Multi-view BOM Position Paper and review the paper’s main conclusions and requirements concerning Engineering BOM to Manufacturing BOM restructuring, effectivity management, and collaboration with suppliers.