Siber Journal of Transportation and Logistics
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): (SJTL) Siber Journal of Transportation and Logistics (July - September 2026)

Service Reliability, Service Value, and Timeliness as Drivers of Customer Loyalty: The Mediating Roles of Relationship Marketing and Customer Satisfaction in Corporate Logistics Services

Della Galuh Anastasia (Universitas Logistik dan Bisnis Internasional, Bandung, Indonesia)
Maniah Maniah (Universitas Logistik dan Bisnis Internasional, Bandung, Indonesia)
Erna Mulyati (Universitas Logistik dan Bisnis Internasional, Bandung, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2026

Abstract

One of decisive challenges faced within business-to-business (B2B) logistics industry is maintaining customer loyalty due to customer expectations and inconsistent findings increasement regarding its determinants. The impacts analysis towards service reliability and value, also timeliness onto customer loyalty were developed extensively in this research, using relationship marketing as well customer satisfaction for corporate logistics services at PT Pos Indonesia (Persero). A quantitative descriptive-verificative methodology was applied. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect 157 corporate customers data eligibly in Regional 2 Jakarta to get examined with Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Test outcome explains service reliability (β = 0.279; t = 2.298) and timeliness (β = 0.426; t = 3.529) significantly affect relationship marketing, whereas service value does not (β = 0.155; t = 1.166). Significant influence delivered by relationship marketing onto customer satisfaction with (β = 0.809; t = 20.776) while loyalty contributed (β = 0.330; t = 3.623), meanwhile satisfaction notably affects loyalty (β = 0.558; t = 6.819). Relationship marketing mediates only the effect of timeliness on customer loyalty, whereas relationship mediation was delivered by satisfaction onto marketing relation towards customer loyalty, highlighting sequential relational mechanisms in corporate logistics. These findings provide theoretical and managerial implications for improving customer retention strategies in B2B corporate logistics services.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SJTL

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Siber Journal of Transportation and Logistics (SJTL) is managed and published by Siber Nusantara Research & Yayasan Sinergi Inovasi Bersama (SIBER). SJTL articles are the result of field research, literature studies, and public policy research. This publication aims to disseminate the results of ...