Patent ID: 8634954

Claim:
In an order-picking system comprising a container warehouse providing a plurality of storage containers, at least one workstation arranged, in a picking mode, as an order-picking station configured for picking goods from the storage containers into order containers, at least one delivery station having a detecting device, where returned goods are provided and detected, a returned-goods conveyor arranged to convey returned goods from the delivery station to the workstation, a storage-container conveyor arranged to convey the storage containers to the workstation, and an order-container conveyor arranged to convey the order containers to the workstation, wherein the returned-goods conveyor is an additional conveyor, and wherein the workstation comprises a working region, wherein the returned-goods conveyor, the storage-container conveyor and the order-container conveyor for delivering or moving away order containers are lead to the working region; a method for storing returned goods of different type of goods in the order-picking system, the method comprising the following steps: providing at least one returned good of a first type of goods at the delivering station; detecting each of the returned goods with a detecting device and delivering the returned goods to the returned-goods conveyor conveying the returned goods to the workstation; identifying the type of goods of each of the detected returned goods with a warehouse-management system; identifying a storage container with which the respectively identified type of goods is associated with the warehouse-management system; retrieving the respectively associated storage container from the container warehouse, and conveying the retrieved associated storage container to the workstation by means of the storage-container conveyor; and delivering the returned goods, at the workstation, to the associated storage container.