Warehouse for order fulfilment with a product storage and at least one order fulfillment area

A warehouse for order fulfilment comprising:

• at least one order fulfillment area in which a plurality of picking stations are arranged and supplied with articles from a product storage for picking orders, wherein the product storage comprises a plurality of racks and a plurality of aisles, and wherein each picking station is supplied with articles by a connecting conveyor system with said connecting conveyor system also configured for supplying and returning order containers from and to the racks and being used for discharge of emptied product containers and partial orders or finished orders from the respective picking station;
• wherein a bypass conveyor is arranged in parallel to the connecting conveyor system such that product and/or order traffic inbound to the picking stations/product storage and outbound from the picking stations/product storage may be off-loaded from the connecting conveyor system to the bypass conveyor so that transported loads not needed in a certain zone or area to which the connecting conveyor systems leads are routed by offloading such traffic to the bypass conveyor;
• wherein the connecting conveyor system is a connecting conveyor system arranged between the product storage and the order fulfillment area and picking stations therein;
• and
• wherein the product storage comprises a plurality of aisles and the connecting conveyor system is a cross-aisle conveyor running the length of a front of the storage segmenting a pre-zone of the order fulfillment area.