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Two years ago, International Playthings Inc. was doing business the old fashioned way--faxes, letters of credit, and a great deal of sitting around and waiting for various documents. There weren't a lot of examples yet of companies that successfully moved their supply chain to the Internet. "It rook a Jot of faith to change the way we were doing business," says Holly Harrington, purchasing manager at the Parsippany, NJ-based company, which sells educational toys to toy chains like FAO Schwartz and Zany Brainy.
"But I can't imagine going back to the way we used to do it," she says, now that the company has moved most of its vendors to TradeCard and is in the ...