Patent ID: 7331471

Claim:
A materials handling facility configured to fulfill orders, said materials handling facility comprising: one or more modular sorting stations, wherein each modular sorting station comprises two or more modular bins, wherein each modular bin is partitioned into two or more compartments, wherein each compartment is configured to receive an order comprising one or more items picked from stock storage, wherein each of the one or more items picked from stock storage is marked with an item code; an order fulfillment control system configured to: assign two or more orders to a single one of the modular bins; uniquely identify the item or the type of the item according to the item code; and direct the placement of each picked item into a compartment of one of the modular bins assigned to an entire order for which the item was picked according to the item code; and one or more packing stations each configured to package the orders from the compartments of the modular bins for shipment; wherein the modular bins are configured to be removed from the modular sorting stations and moved to a packing station to package the orders from the compartments of the modular bins.