Method for operating a sorting center with a number of sorting systems, comprising the following method steps: a) providing at least one input strand, wherein the input strand has an input device for the sorting items and a component for identifying the sorting item or its destination address; b) providing a conveying path adjoining the input strand, which has conveying switches and target points arranged along the conveying path; c) providing a number of sorting items at the at least one input device for a sorting run; d) feeding the number of sorting items to the input device and sorting the sorting items by a sorting control adjusting the conveying switches according to a sorting logic into the target points corresponding to the target codes of the sorting items, wherein e) the sorting control determines parameters representing the sorting performance of the sorting system and compares these with reference values to be achieved or exceeded; characterized in that f) in the event of a negative deviation, a parameter pattern is determined as a function of the inadequate parameter value and either a correction taken from a catalogue of measures for the improvement of this parameter pattern is automatically applied in the control system of the sorting system or a corrective measure initiated manually by an operator is carried out and tracked with regard to the change in the parameter pattern achieved by this corrective measure, and wherein g) in the event of an actual improvement in the parameters, the manually triggered correction measure is included in the catalogue of measures as a correction learned for this parameter pattern and is available for the application of an automatic correction in the future if this parameter pattern is available. a) providing at least one input strand, wherein the input strand has an input device for the sorting items and a component for identifying the sorting item or its destination address; b) providing a conveying path adjoining the input strand, which has conveying switches and target points arranged along the conveying path; c) providing a number of sorting items at the at least one input device for a sorting run; d) feeding the number of sorting items to the input device and sorting the sorting items by a sorting control adjusting the conveying switches according to a sorting logic into the target points corresponding to the target codes of the sorting items, wherein e) the sorting control determines parameters representing the sorting performance of the sorting system and compares these with reference values to be achieved or exceeded; characterized in that f) in the event of a negative deviation, a parameter pattern is determined as a function of the inadequate parameter value and either a correction taken from a catalogue of measures for the improvement of this parameter pattern is automatically applied in the control system of the sorting system or a corrective measure initiated manually by an operator is carried out and tracked with regard to the change in the parameter pattern achieved by this corrective measure, and wherein g) in the event of an actual improvement in the parameters, the manually triggered correction measure is included in the catalogue of measures as a correction learned for this parameter pattern and is available for the application of an automatic correction in the future if this parameter pattern is available.