**7. Conclusions**

Logistics is a required function for all types of businesses. It covers many actions and activities performed by the companies involved in managing the flow of raw material, unfinished products, and final products. This wide range allows to introduce and use many tools, solutions, or actions that led to the creation of Sustainable Logistics Management term.

Sustainability is the future for logistics and supply chain businesses. It is important to understand the level of social, environmental, and economic impact and viability that suppliers and customers have. It is beyond going green and being environmentally friendly, it has an influence on manufacturing processes, starting from where raw materials are obtained, processes involved, use, and potential recycling of the product or service. In analyzing the problem of selecting a freight forwarder, sustainability will be one amongst other criteria for evaluation. Selecting a logistics partner who cares about sustainability will help in achieving company's strategy. Some of the logistic and transport companies generate reports for CO2 emission, which will help in achieving specific targets and strategies.

As business is becoming more challenging these days, companies need to be aware of and practice sustainable supply chain management to stay competitive. Sustainable logistic and supply chain management is about environment protection, social responsibilities, and economic growth and profitability in the long term.

In addition to cost and speed criteria, sustainability should be introduced in the evaluation criteria. It is suggested that logistic evaluation is based on a multi-criteria in terms of transit time, quality of service, expertise and specialized service, network, competitive prices, technology and information, and sustainability criteria.

*Principles of Sustainable Logistics DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.103018*
