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1. A method of fulfilling orders, comprising:
making orders available in order units by picking from product units in a storage facility, wherein the storage facility includes a manual storage and picking area, and an automated storage and retrieval racking area arranged downstream or upstream from the manual storage and picking area, and connected thereto by a routing conveyor, which leads to a shipping area,
wherein the manual storage and picking area comprises manual picking stations supplied and arranged along the routing conveyor and supplying the routing conveyor with order units picked at the manual picking stations;wherein the automated storage and retrieval racking area comprises:
a storage racking comprising a plurality of multilevel storage racks storing order and/or product units, and disposed in pairs with an aisle arranged therebetween;at least one storage-entry conveyor that feeds the order and/or product units into the storage racking;at least one storage-exit conveyor that retrieves the order and/or product units from the storage racking;at least one automatic storage and retrieval device that stores and retrieves the order and/or product units from the storage racks;at least one lifting device that transfers the order and/or product units to the at least one storage-exit conveyor; andat least one fully or semiautomatic picking station to which the order and/or product units are fed by the at least one storage-exit conveyor and from which the order and/or product units are dispatched by the at least one storage-entry conveyor for fulfilling orders; andwherein the routing conveyor is connected to the at least one inbound storage-entry conveyor and/or the at least one storage-exit conveyor of the storage racking; exchanging the order and/or product units between two adjoining storage racks from a source storage rack to an adjacent destination storage rack via cross conveyance locations; dispatching order units containing completed orders coming from the manual storage and picking area via the routing conveyor to the shipping area or into the storage racking via the at least one storage-entry conveyor for later dispatch; moving order units containing completed orders coming from the storage racking via the routing conveyor to the shipping area; directing order units containing completed orders coming from the fully or semiautomatic picking station via the routing conveyor to the shipping area or into the storage racking via the at least one storage-entry conveyor for later dispatch; introducing order units containing partial orders coming from the manual storage and picking area into the storage racking via the at least one storage-entry conveyor for further processing or directly into the fully or semiautomatic picking station for immediate processing; and directing order units containing partial orders coming from the fully or semiautomatic picking station or the storage racking into the storage racking or to the manual storage and picking area for further processing. |
