We, as members of SOLE – The International Society of Logistics and professionals in logistics management, engineering and education, recognize our deep obligation to mankind to help conserve the world’s resources and increase the efficiency of business methods, industrial processes and public services.
We acknowledge our duty to use all the knowledge and skills at our command to assure that the basic necessities of human life — food, health care, education, energy, housing and public services — are efficiently produced and distributed in the required quantities at an equitable cost.
We resolve to undertake vigorous promotion of progressive programs, in cooperation with educational and other institutions in all lands, to improve the knowledge, skills and social awareness of logisticians, educators and executives in the efficient management of physical and human resources.
We resolve to exercise professional vigilance in the quality, reliability and safety of products and services to sustain civilized life.
We recognize our obligation to help increase the effectiveness of logistics management, raise the productivity and reduce the costs of industrial and public service support systems, and develop and conserve scarce material resources for the benefit of all men.
As members of SOLE – The International Society of Logistics, we pledge our energies and professional skills to realization of these goals, in consonance with our increasing awareness of the delicate balances of the natural environment and the need for improvement of the human habitat. We do so with full confidence in the great potential for human betterment offered now and in the future by improved technology, management and education in the art and science of logistics.