and what about the people/services that were part of the 20 million dollar cost you reduced using that software?
Would you want a job as a copy clerk? These were people who copied documents by hand before copy machines were invented.
The WIP inventory reduction might come as a decrease in raw materials. Let whoever sold it to me sell to someone else.
The people transporting goods can transport for others. (Or they were overcharging)
Hopefully those people were paid well for their hard work and saved up enough money to retire or move onto bigger things.