A process for forming bumps wherein a plurality of fine bumps are uniformly formed with high productivity. In this process, a resin (13) including 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, the flat plate (14) is moved away from the surface of the supplied resin (13), and then the resin (13) is removed to provide a substrate (10) having bumps (16) formed on the plurality of the electrodes.