Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, grade: 1,7 (A-), Pforzheim University (International Business), course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: In times of “lean-production” and globalisation it’s not just the output-markets that profit from those trends, it’s also the input market which is heavily influenced by the movements towards a worldwide orientated economy. This development is promoted by new and innovative transportation-, packaging- and stock concepts as well as by improving conditions in telecommunication and the successive fall of trade barriers especially within regional economies like the EU or NAFTA.
