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Quality control and supply chain management are among key functions ripe for improvement using modern business intelligence (BI) and business activity monitoring (BAM) software. So says Richard Neale, marketing manager at BI developer and Business Objects. He concedes that most departments have operational systems based in ERP, but agues that since they are geared to management and automation of the status quo, BI and BAM systems are ideally placed to steer change.