The research also assessed the quality in each stage of the customer service according to the most important
criteria for describing the logistical task performance. The clients of logistics services in Lithuania consider the
solution of problematic situations and advance assessment of activities’ costs as of lowest quality as these aspects
lack of execution speed, flexibility and punctuality. These are the aspects that indicate where the operators providing
logistics services in Lithuania should focus their attention on improving their performance. These stages do not
occur in all operations, thus service providers may be improperly prepared for them, and it is likely that their service
providers even try to avoid. Acceptance of orders and order accounting and documentation management were
evaluated the best and these phases received positive evaluations regarding the performance speed, diligence and
flexibility. Assessing separate criteria, flexibility and performance speed received highest fluctuations of
evaluations. The thoroughness of logistics service providers was evaluated the best (almost in all service stages), as
well as flexibility; technological solutions were evaluated the worst, suggesting that service provider are not
equipped with customer expectations justifying technological equipment (physical), while the application of IT
measures in logistics was evaluated at high scores. In the service evaluation stages the customers were also directly
asked to evaluate the satisfaction of their perceptions and expectations, and the obtained results were compared with
the arithmetic average of all criteria’s average of each service stage. As it was expected, the evaluation of
expectations had the highest grade, while the satisfaction of needs was proportionally lower, the average of the
criteria was close to the assessment of satisfaction of needs, however, the stage of the assessment of problematic
situations distinguished, when the average of the criteria was higher than the evaluation of expectations perception
and needs satisfaction – it is assumed that consumers do not realize properly the quality namely in this stage
(Table