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Alcoa's Billion-Dollar Software Savings
By John McCormick
2002-10-11
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Alcoa Base Case
Headquarters: 201 Isabella St., Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5858
Phone: (412) 553-4545
Business: World's leading producer of aluminum
Chief Information Officer: Rudolph P. Huber
Financials in 2001: $22.9 billion in sales, $1.6 billion in operating income, $908 million in net income
Challenge: Implement common set of software applications in support of corporate cost-reduction program
Baseline Goals:
Cut $1 billion in costs by the end of 2003
Eliminate most of 3,000 corporate applications and establish global software standard, based on Oracle 11i suite, by end of 2003
Drive sales, general and administrative costs down from 2001 level of $1.3 Billion
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