Road freight service tender documents monitoring in Europe between 2019 and 2023

Nowadays many businesses compete not only with their products, but also (and in some cases even dominantly) with their supply chains. Therefore, a well-developed supply chain management strategy may create a dominant part of value businesses bring to end customers. Nowadays the approach of outsourcing logistics operations to third parties is becoming widely used businesses find it more efficient to concentrate on and allocate own resources to core business activities, should it be production, sales and marketing, or value creation. Taking this into consideration, the need for effective collaboration and partnership strategy is becoming vital for many businesses and third-party logistics service providers. Presented data was collected from road freight service tender documents issued by various production companies in Europe between 2019 and 2023. There were in total 277 tender projects studied issued by 184 companies. The following documents were investigated: general framework agreements, service level agreements, standard operating procedures, and environmental policies. While analyzing above mentioned documents, particular statements were extracted that describe following elements: the goal of a tender, 3PL selection criteria, requirements towards 3PL providers, key performance indicators, and green logistics-solution-related statements. Afterwards, definition of keywords based these statements was done. Overall, there are 16 unique groups of 3PL selection criteria presented, 14 groups of goals of a tender, 25 groups of requirements towards 3PL providers, 16 groups of key performance indicators, and 16 groups of green logistics-solution-related statements. The presented database is organized as follows. There is information about the country of the companies given, followed by the year when the road freight service tender was issued, the company’s industry code and full description of industry. The scope of the dented shows either company tendered full-truckload services (FTL), less than truckload services (LTL), or both. There are specific elements identified: criteria (3PL selection criteria), goal (goal of a tender), green (green logistics-solution-related), kpi (key performance indicators), and requirements (requirements towards 3PL providers). In column “quote from documents” original statement extracted from tenders’ documents is shown. And finally, “element group” shows assigned element group. The database contains in total 4376 records and was prepared between June 2023 and September 2023. Information presented in the data can be further used to perform market analysis of partnership between businesses and 3PL services providers, as well as for development of decision-making models for selection of 3PL service providers.

当下诸多企业的竞争早已不限于产品层面，供应链亦成为核心竞争维度，在部分场景中甚至占据主导地位。因此，完善的供应链管理策略，可为企业向终端客户交付的整体价值贡献核心占比。当前，将物流业务外包给第三方的模式已得到广泛应用：企业可将自身资源聚焦并配置于核心业务活动，无论是生产、销售营销还是价值创造环节，此举往往具备更高的运营效率。有鉴于此，构建高效协作与伙伴关系的战略，对诸多企业及第三方物流（Third-Party Logistics, 3PL）服务提供商而言愈发至关重要。本数据集的采集源为2019至2023年间欧洲多家生产企业发布的公路货运服务招标文件，共计纳入184家企业发布的277个招标项目进行分析。本次分析涉及的文件类型包括：通用框架协议、服务水平协议、标准作业流程以及环境政策文件。在对上述文件进行分析的过程中，研究人员提取了涵盖以下维度的具体表述：招标目标、3PL遴选标准、对3PL服务商的要求、关键绩效指标，以及与绿色物流解决方案相关的表述。基于上述提取的表述，完成了关键词的定义工作。整体而言，本次数据集共涵盖16组独立的3PL遴选标准、14组招标目标分类、25组对3PL服务商的要求分类、16组关键绩效指标分类，以及16组绿色物流解决方案相关表述分类。本数据库的结构如下：首先是企业所属国家信息，随后依次为公路货运服务招标发布年份、企业行业代码及行业完整描述。服务范围维度标注了企业招标的是整车货运（Full Truckload, FTL）、零担货运（Less than Truckload, LTL），还是两者兼具。数据集包含已识别的特定维度：criteria（3PL遴选标准）、goal（招标目标）、green（绿色物流相关内容）、kpi（关键绩效指标）以及requirements（对3PL服务商的要求）。"quote from documents"列展示了从招标文件中提取的原始表述；最终的"element group"列则标注了该表述所属的分类组别。本数据库共计包含4376条记录，于2023年6月至9月期间完成构建。本数据集可进一步用于开展企业与3PL服务商之间的伙伴关系市场分析，同时也可用于开发3PL服务商遴选决策模型。