Shipment Consolidation
Groups orders into fewer, fuller shipments to reduce freight cost.
Supported rules and limits
Candidate outbound shipments are resources with multidimensional capacity and fixed freight cost. Orders carry requirements, service/route eligibility and per-shipment costs. Service compatibility must be explicit resourceOptions/requiredSkills; no implicit pairwise compatibility.
Version 1.0.0 is a release candidate. Confirm supported rules before integrating.
- Heuristic search; no optimality or infeasibility proof
- Candidate outbound shipments are resources with multidimensional capacity and fixed freight cost. Orders carry requirements, service/route eligibility and per-shipment costs. Service compatibility must be explicit resourceOptions/requiredSkills; no implicit pairwise compatibility.
What you can optimize
- Freight cost
- Load factor
- Service level
Typical applications
- Freight forwarders
- Wholesale
- 3PL
Related models
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