Patent ID: 7988406

Claim:
A method for operating an order-picking system, wherein the order-picking system comprises a high-bay warehouse, at least one tray warehouse, at least one packing station, and at least one shipping station, the method comprising the steps of: a) depalletizing in a layerwise manner packing units forming a pallet layer from a pallet, which carries respectively a plurality of packing units, which are to be picked, of one type of article, onto a correspondingly dimensioned tray; b) bringing the tray loaded with the pallet layer into the tray warehouse; c) recalling the tray loaded with the pallet layer in accordance with an order-picking order or several order-picking orders to the packing station; d) removing a predetermined number, in accordance with the order-picking order or one of the order-picking orders, of packing units, which are to be picked, and packing the removed packing units onto a shipping support, in order to ship the shipping support to a customer, if the order-picking order is completed; e) combining several order-picking orders to form a batch; and f) batch order-picking the combined order-picking orders on the trays.