Patent ID: 8626334

Claim:
In an order-picking warehouse which comprises: a plurality of storage locations and a guidance system; wherein the guidance system comprises a plurality of storage-location displays, a master computer, and at least one controller; a method for manually configuring the order-picking warehouse by using the guidance system comprises the following steps: equipping at least some of the storage locations with respectively one of the storage-location displays so that each of the equipped storage locations is associated with the one of the storage-location displays; connecting the associated storage-location displays to the master computer via the at least one controller, and allocating to each of the controllers a dedicated controller address; and configuring the order-picking warehouse by assigning respectively one dedicated storage-location address to each of the equipped storage locations in that: i.) all of the associated storage-location displays, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, are visually activated; ii.) at least one of the visually activated storage-location displays is selected by the user, thereby selecting the associated storage location and causing visual deactivation of the selected storage-location display; iii.) each of the selected storage locations is respectively assigned one dedicated storage-location address; and iv.) it is returned to step i.) until all of the associated storage locations, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, have been assigned a dedicated storage-location address, or until the user no longer wishes to assign dedicated storage-location addresses.