Method and apparatus for repositioning individually packaged products

A method for repositioning individual products which differ in at least one property from one another, from at least one individual product conveyor into deposition positions of at least one deposition position conveyor, in which the aforementioned property is recorded at any arbitrary time in the method, and the method has the following steps:

• conveying the individual products on the at least one individual product conveyor along a picker line having at least two pickers disposed in succession in a conveying direction of the individual products;
• grasping of the individual products by the pickers and transferring them to one of the deposition positions as a function of a detected property of the individual products;
• forming a predefined group, with regard to the detected property, in the deposition position;
• wherein the at least one deposition position conveyor transports the deposition positions at least in a region of transferral of the individual products to these deposition positions, in parallel but in an opposite direction to the conveying direction of the at least one individual product conveyor, and
• at least one last one of the pickers in the conveying direction of the at least one deposition position conveyor completes the step of forming the predefined group.