A storage-and-picking system for progressive picking of articles in accordance with new orders defining ordered articles with regard to a respectively ordered article type including an associated quantity, wherein the system comprises: a picking warehouse in which a plurality of different article types forming an article assortment for the picking process are stored, wherein the picking warehouse has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of several days; a picking station for conventional picking of articles stored in the picking warehouse, and for processing new orders, which are picking-warehouse-pure, containing the article types being stored in the picking warehouse only; a buffer warehouse in which selected article types are stored, preferably in storage units, and which has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of few days, wherein the buffer warehouse is filled with selected article types, which originate from the picking warehouse, in accordance with a filling order re-determined in cycles based on data of old orders, which represent picking orders of the past already completed, and defining the selected article types including the associated quantity thereof, wherein the data of the old orders comprise ordered article types including associated quantities thereof and associated ordering times thereof; a picking control; and at least one work station including a consolidation-buffer device for order-orientated processing of the articles types, which are stored in the buffer warehouse and are included in buffer-pure new orders, which only include article types being stored in the buffer warehouse, and mixed new orders, which include article types being stored in the buffer warehouse and in the picking warehouse, wherein the work station is connected, in terms of material flow, to the buffer warehouse, and wherein, at the work station, the ordered articles are removed, preferably from the storage units, and packed, or removed and delivered to the consolidation-buffer device; wherein the picking control is configured for cyclic generation of the filling order, wherein the generation comprises the following steps: selecting the article types, which have been ordered frequently in the past and in greater amounts, for the buffer warehouse from the data of the old orders; determining article-type-specific buffer quantities for each of the selected article types; and generating the filling order defining the selected article types including their associated buffer quantities; and wherein the picking control is further configured to cause filling the buffer warehouse with the articles of the selected article types. a picking warehouse in which a plurality of different article types forming an article assortment for the picking process are stored, wherein the picking warehouse has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of several days; a picking station for conventional picking of articles stored in the picking warehouse, and for processing new orders, which are picking-warehouse-pure, containing the article types being stored in the picking warehouse only; a buffer warehouse in which selected article types are stored, preferably in storage units, and which has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of few days, wherein the buffer warehouse is filled with selected article types, which originate from the picking warehouse, in accordance with a filling order re-determined in cycles based on data of old orders, which represent picking orders of the past already completed, and defining the selected article types including the associated quantity thereof, wherein the data of the old orders comprise ordered article types including associated quantities thereof and associated ordering times thereof; a picking control; and at least one work station including a consolidation-buffer device for order-orientated processing of the articles types, which are stored in the buffer warehouse and are included in buffer-pure new orders, which only include article types being stored in the buffer warehouse, and mixed new orders, which include article types being stored in the buffer warehouse and in the picking warehouse, wherein the work station is connected, in terms of material flow, to the buffer warehouse, and wherein, at the work station, the ordered articles are removed, preferably from the storage units, and packed, or removed and delivered to the consolidation-buffer device; wherein the picking control is configured for cyclic generation of the filling order, wherein the generation comprises the following steps: selecting the article types, which have been ordered frequently in the past and in greater amounts, for the buffer warehouse from the data of the old orders; determining article-type-specific buffer quantities for each of the selected article types; and generating the filling order defining the selected article types including their associated buffer quantities; selecting the article types, which have been ordered frequently in the past and in greater amounts, for the buffer warehouse from the data of the old orders; determining article-type-specific buffer quantities for each of the selected article types; and generating the filling order defining the selected article types including their associated buffer quantities; and wherein the picking control is further configured to cause filling the buffer warehouse with the articles of the selected article types.