diff --git a/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/pom.xml b/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f4b66151
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.shade.flatten</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0</version>
+
+  <name>MSHADE-323</name>
+  <description>
+    Test the integration of Shade and Flatten plugins.
+  </description>
+
+  <properties>
+    <ver>0.1</ver>
+    <maven.jar.forceCreation>true</maven.jar.forceCreation>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.shade.drp</groupId>
+      <artifactId>a</artifactId>
+      <version>${ver}</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>flatten-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.2.5</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>flatten</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>prepare-package</phase>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.2.2</version>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>@project.version@</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>shade</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <createDependencyReducedPom>true</createDependencyReducedPom>
+              <dependencyReducedPomLocation>target/dependency-reduced-pom.xml</dependencyReducedPomLocation>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/src/main/java/A.java b/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/src/main/java/A.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b244767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/src/main/java/A.java
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+class A {}
diff --git a/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/verify.groovy b/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/verify.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c715ed64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/projects/MSHADE-323-compatible-with-flatten-pom/verify.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+File pomFile = new File( basedir, "target/dependency-reduced-pom.xml" );
+assert pomFile.isFile()
+
+def ns = new groovy.xml.Namespace( "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" )
+def pom = new XmlParser().parse( pomFile )
+
+assert pom.properties.size() == 0
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/shade/mojo/ShadeMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/shade/mojo/ShadeMojo.java
index d717253f..cfa6e3c4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/shade/mojo/ShadeMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/shade/mojo/ShadeMojo.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.apache.maven.model.Dependency;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Exclusion;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Model;
+import org.apache.maven.model.io.ModelReader;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
 import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Component;
@@ -140,6 +141,12 @@ public class ShadeMojo
     @Component
     protected ArtifactResolver artifactResolver;
 
+    /**
+     * Model reader for parsing pom file
+     */
+    @Component
+    private ModelReader modelReader;
+
     /**
      * Artifacts to include/exclude from the final artifact. Artifacts are denoted by composite identifiers of the
      * general form <code>groupId:artifactId:type:classifier</code>. Since version 1.3, the wildcard characters '*' and
@@ -481,7 +488,7 @@ public void execute()
 
             List<ResourceTransformer> resourceTransformers = getResourceTransformers();
 
-            if ( createDependencyReducedPom )
+            if ( createDependencyReducedPom && project.getFile() != null )
             {
                 createDependencyReducedPom( artifactIds );
 
@@ -1090,7 +1097,8 @@ private void createDependencyReducedPom( Set<String> artifactsToRemove )
             origDeps = transitiveDeps;
         }
 
-        Model model = project.getOriginalModel();
+        final Model model = modelReader.read( project.getFile(), null );
+
         // MSHADE-185: We will remove all system scoped dependencies which usually
         // have some kind of property usage. At this time the properties within
         // such things are already evaluated.