A warehouse management system (102), an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) (106), and a handheld device (HHD) (108) consolidate orders at a warehouse received from users. A first percentage of orders may be consolidated from at least one regular 5 zone of the warehouse within a predetermined time period. A second percentage of the orders may be consolidated from a manual zone of the warehouse when the first percentage of the orders cannot be consolidated within the predetermined time period Further, a remaining or a third percentage of the orders may be consolidated 10 from the at least one regular zone or the manual zone in a next iteration of the AMR (106) when at least one item of the plurality of orders is not available in the warehouse.

The invention relates to a method for distributing a large number of different products among a large number of customers, which method comprises of:

- supplying the same products (3) in batches;

- fully filling product containers (4) with a number of the same products;

- collecting fully filled product containers (4) per customer in accordance with predetermined requirement;

- transporting remaining products to a buffer (7);

- collecting different products in the buffer (7);

- filling at least one product container per customer with different products from the buffer (7) in accordance with the products still missing per customer;

- placing the product container(s) (4) filled with different products with the fully filled product containers already collected per customer.

Bei einem Kommissionierautomat (1) zur automatischen Kommissionierung und Versandbereitstellung von Artikeln (2) mit zwei parallelen, gegen die Vertikale leicht geneigten Magazinreihen (3, 4), in denen die Artikel gestapelt sind, und mit Ausschiebern (13) zum Ausschieben von stapeluntersten Artikeln quer zur Stapelerstreckung auf ein zwischen den Magazinreihen (3,4) im wesentlichen horizontal verlaufendes Förderband (5) wird vorgeschlagen, nicht nur eines zwischen den Magazinreihen laufendes Förderband vorzusehen, sondern jeder Magazinreihe auf der äußeren Magazinlängsseite zumindest ein weiteres im wesentliches horizontal verlaufendes Förderband zuzuordnen, wobei umkehrbare Ausschieber vorgesehen sind, welche nicht nur in eine Richtung auf ein in der Mitte vorbeilaufendes Förderband aufschieben können, sondern im Bedarfsfall sowohl auf das innenliegende als auch auf das außenliegende Förderband. Dadurch kann die Kommissionierleistung in etwa verdoppelt werden.

Das Zusammensetzen von aus verschiedenen Produkten in Pappschachtel oder Lattenkisten verpackt bestehenden Aufträgen, dadurch daß die Produkte die pro Produkttyp gelagert sind, auf einzelne Lagerförderer (5) auf einen Förderer (1,9) gesammelt werden und die gesammelten Produkte verschiedenes Typs mit Hilfe dieses Förderers (1,9) wieder einem Lagerförderer (5) zugeführt werden.

Method of fulfilling orders by making orders available in order units by picking from product units in a storage facility wherein,

- the storage facility has a manual storage and picking area (I);

- the storage facility has an automated storage and retrieval racking area (II);

- the automated storage and retrieval racking area (II) is arranged downstream or upstream from the manual picking area (I) and is connected to the manual picking area by a routing conveyor (5) , which leads to a shipping area (IV);

- the manual storage and picking area (I) comprises manual picking stations (28) supplied and arranged along the extension of the routing conveyor (5) ;

- the automated storage and retrieval racking area (II) comprises:

- a storage racking (9 ) comprising a plurality of multilevel storage racks (R) wherein the storage racks are disposed back-to-back in pairs and have an aisle (13) between pairs;

- at least one storage-entry conveyor (14) provided for feeding order and/or product units into the storage racking;

- at least one storage-exit conveyor (15) provided for retrieval of order and/or product units from the storage racking;

- at least one automatic storage and retrieval device (11) provided for each storage racking aisle (13) , wherein the order and/or product units are stored and retrieved from the storage racks (R) by the automatic storage and retrieval;

- at least one lifting device used, in order to transfer the order and/or product units to the at least one storage-exit conveyor;

- at least one fully or semiautomatic picking station (7) for picking from product units into order units for fulfilling orders;

- wherein order and/or product units (U) are exchanged directly between two adjoining storage racks (R) ;

wherein the routing conveyor is connected to the at least one inbound storage-entry conveyor and/or the at least one storage-exit conveyor of the storage racking.