A method of assisting error recovery in an automated packaging process of packaging shipment sets of one or more items in accordance with processing data, said packaging process comprising at least one entry stage upstream of a plurality of processing stages, the method comprising - at an entry stage of the automated packaging process, for each shipment set prior to packaging the shipment set -- assigning a unique processing set identifier to the shipment set, -- obtaining processing data for the shipment set, -- acquiring a representation of each item in the shipment set, said acquiring comprising at least one of taking a picture of the entire shipment set or of the individual item(s) forming the shipment set, scanning machine-readable data carriers provided on at least one item of the shipment set, in particular scanning an RFID tag, a barcode or a QR code, and -- recording a dataset in a database by associating said unique processing set identifier with the processing data of said shipment set and with said representation, and - submitting the shipment set for packaging, wherein the progress of each individual shipment set in the automated packaging process is tracked using an elapsed time-based and/or sensor-based functionality and by updating the dataset with a processing stage identifier, - on occurrence of a processing error affecting a shipment set -- obtaining a collection of datasets of each shipment set potentially affected, comprising identifying datasets comprising a specific processing stage identifier, and displaying on a display device images of the shipment sets for selection, -- configuring a user interface at the entry stage with the representations of the shipment sets in said collection and for allowing selecting an affected shipment set, and -- selecting on the user interface a shipment set for re-entering and re-entering the item(s) of the affected shipment sets into the automated packaging process using the processing data recorded in the dataset of the selected shipment set. - at an entry stage of the automated packaging process, for each shipment set prior to packaging the shipment set -- assigning a unique processing set identifier to the shipment set, -- obtaining processing data for the shipment set, -- acquiring a representation of each item in the shipment set, said acquiring comprising at least one of taking a picture of the entire shipment set or of the individual item(s) forming the shipment set, scanning machine-readable data carriers provided on at least one item of the shipment set, in particular scanning an RFID tag, a barcode or a QR code, and -- recording a dataset in a database by associating said unique processing set identifier with the processing data of said shipment set and with said representation, and -- assigning a unique processing set identifier to the shipment set, -- obtaining processing data for the shipment set, -- acquiring a representation of each item in the shipment set, said acquiring comprising at least one of taking a picture of the entire shipment set or of the individual item(s) forming the shipment set, scanning machine-readable data carriers provided on at least one item of the shipment set, in particular scanning an RFID tag, a barcode or a QR code, and -- recording a dataset in a database by associating said unique processing set identifier with the processing data of said shipment set and with said representation, and - submitting the shipment set for packaging, wherein the progress of each individual shipment set in the automated packaging process is tracked using an elapsed time-based and/or sensor-based functionality and by updating the dataset with a processing stage identifier, - on occurrence of a processing error affecting a shipment set -- obtaining a collection of datasets of each shipment set potentially affected, comprising identifying datasets comprising a specific processing stage identifier, and displaying on a display device images of the shipment sets for selection, -- configuring a user interface at the entry stage with the representations of the shipment sets in said collection and for allowing selecting an affected shipment set, and -- selecting on the user interface a shipment set for re-entering and re-entering the item(s) of the affected shipment sets into the automated packaging process using the processing data recorded in the dataset of the selected shipment set. -- obtaining a collection of datasets of each shipment set potentially affected, comprising identifying datasets comprising a specific processing stage identifier, and displaying on a display device images of the shipment sets for selection, -- configuring a user interface at the entry stage with the representations of the shipment sets in said collection and for allowing selecting an affected shipment set, and -- selecting on the user interface a shipment set for re-entering and re-entering the item(s) of the affected shipment sets into the automated packaging process using the processing data recorded in the dataset of the selected shipment set.