Study on Shipment Consolidation in the Environment of Supply Chain Integration

This paper is aimed at studying the mode of shipment consolidation in the environment of supply chain integration management. It briefly introduces the connotation of supply chain integration and shipment consolidation and three methods to realize it. Three kinds of typical policy of shipment consolidation are described in this paper, quantity-based policy (QP), time-based policy (TP), and hybrid policy (HP). The result of this paper is that the shipment consolidation can be well applied in logistics system. KEYWORD: supply chain integration; shipment consolidation; method; policy