There is provided a process for forming bumps wherein a plurality of fine bumps are uniformly formed with high productivity. In this process, a resin (13) comprising solder powder and a convection additive (12) is supplied onto a substrate (10) having a plurality of electrodes (11) thereon. And subsequently the substrate (10) is heated to a temperature that enables the solder powder to melt while keeping a flat plate (14) in contact with a surface of the supplied resin (13). During this heating step, the molten solder powder is allowed to self-assemble onto the electrodes (11) so that a plurality of solder balls resulting from the grown molten solder powder are concurrently formed on the electrodes (11) in self-alignment manner. Finally, by moving the flat plate (14) away from the surface of the supplied resin (13), followed by removing such resin (13), there is provided the substrate (10) wherein the bumps (16) are formed on the plurality of the electrodes.