Submitted Assignment from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, , language: English, abstract: This paper is about logistics and wants to distinguish between domestic and global logistics. Additionally, it discusses the driving forces for the internationalization of logistics and the related challenges. Today, logistics has acquired a wider meaning and is used in business for the movement of raw materials from suppliers to the manufacturer and finally the finished goods to the consumers. Logistics is also referred to as physical distribution. No other area of business operations involves the complexity or spans the geography of logistics. All around the world, 24 hours of every day, seven days a week, during 52 weeks a year, logistics is concerned with getting products and services where they are needed at the precise time desired. It is difficult to visualize any marketing, manufacturing or international commerce without logistics. Domestic logistics involves tracking and coordinating the flow of goods and services from their sources until the customer receives a final product within the same country. So “international logistics” refers to the flow of goods, services, or people between different countries