Graph Expo 2000--Vendor Coalitions Offer Real Promise

The $30 million that RRD invested in Noosh less than a year ago is now a passive investment with RRD having pulled its representative off Noosh's board of directors. Likewise, Terry Tevis, the RRD executive charged with creating Digeno, departed the firm just before Graph Expo.

At the Executive Outlook Conference held the day before Graph Expo opened, supply chain vendors spoke of their clients' e-commerce experiences during this past year. Jim Milici, of the Pitman Co., said that the capability to order supplies from his company's Website has been fully operational for more than five months. While a very low percent of sales has been generated this way for Pitman, select clients have been very active.