Patent ID: 8666536

Claim:
A process for manually commissioning individually packaged products, the process comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of containers with a plurality of the individually packaged products packed into the plurality of containers; providing a driven conveying section and an elevator; transporting the plurality of containers along the driven conveying section to the elevator; providing a plurality of channels receiving and guiding the containers, said plurality of channels being arranged in a plurality of levels to form a flow shelf, each of said levels including a plurality of said channels arranged in a horizontal direction, said each of said levels being arranged in a vertical direction, each of said plurality of channels having an inlet and an outlet; selectively moving the elevator with one of the plurality of containers to one of said plurality of levels; providing a plurality of level conveyor units, each of said level conveyor units being arranged at a different one of said plurality of levels of said channels; selectively moving the containers from the elevator to one of the level conveyor units; selectively conveying the containers from the elevator to said inlets of said channels in a respective said level on a respective level conveyor unit; moving the containers from the inlets of the channels to the outlets of the channels; providing a commissioning workplace at the outlets of the plurality of channels; providing an order container at the commissioning workplace; providing an order document indicating which desired products are to be in the order container; moving the desired products from the containers at the outlets of the channels, to the order container, by a commissioning person.