Patent ID: 8560114

Claim:
A method for operating in a two stage batch mode a storage and order-picking system including at least one warehouse area and one order-picking station assigned to the at least one warehouse area, the at least one warehouse area comprising a plurality of provision locations where respectively articles of one type of article only is stored, the order-picking station including a plurality of buffer locations, wherein each of the buffer locations respectively comprises a display device, wherein stored articles are manually removed and delivered by an order-picking person who is equipped with a collecting device for buffering removed articles; the method comprising: detecting a plurality of picking orders, wherein each of the picking orders comprises a plurality of ordered articles which differ in type of article and quantity ordered, and is assigned to at least one of the order containers; analyzing the detected picking orders in order to determine a group of order containers, the assigned picking orders of which do all require articles stored in the at least one warehouse area; determining the group of order containers; moving the determined group of order containers to the order-picking station, wherein each of the order containers of the determined group of order containers is buffered at one of the buffer locations; determining a collecting order based on the picking orders assigned to the order containers of the group of order containers; using a computer to determine a route-optimized manner that optimizes movements for an order-picking person; retrieving to-be-picked articles from the at least one the warehouse area in accordance with the collecting order, wherein the step of retrieving comprises: directing the order-picking person to move in the route-optimized manner through the at least one warehouse area, to manually-remove articles in accordance with the collecting order and to deliver the same unsorted to a collecting device, which is carried by the order-picking person for buffering the removed articles; and directing the retrieved articles to be manually distributed to the group of order containers provided at the buffer locations, wherein at least one article of each type of article retrieved is scanned and identified before the order-picking person gets signalled by one of the display devices to which of the associated order containers a respective quantity of articles of the scanned and identified type of article is to be transferred from the collecting device.