Routing is the description of all of the resources, steps, and activities associated with a path or routing associated with a manufacturing or production process. Typically, a routing contains people, machines, tooling, operations, and steps. Information specifying a grouping of operations and their relationships. Information specifying the operations and there order for the specified routing. Information specifying the occurrence of the operations within an OperationGroup. At least one occurrence of the GroupMember component is required for each occurrence of the OperationGroup component. Except for the request BODs which use the verbs Get and GetList. Is the Item Identifier in which the Routing is being used to create. In a manufacturing environment where a CNC Lathe or a Manual Lathe may be alternative operations used in the production of a finished good. In the example above the Manual Lathe OperationGroup Name would be Alternate OperationGroupType.