Globalization and Logistics are closely connected, just as Globalization and Academic Lecturing are. This poses new challenges in studying Logistics and makes textbooks in English an important tool in college and university curricula that deal with transportation, logistics, and supply chain management. The idea of offering a textbook in two languages was conceived after the success of the ?rst volume of Logistik: Grundlagen – U ¨bungen – Fallbeispiele, published in 2008. At that time, it was an early textbook primarily intended for students enrolled in bachelor degree programs in Logistics, and was extremely well received among academics and industry experts. Based on their own teaching experience, the authors later decided to prepare an English edition of the book to support international academic environments.