User-configurable guidance system of an order-picking warehouse and method for configuring the order-picking warehouse

A user-configurable guidance system of an order-picking warehouse, which comprises a plurality of storage locations which can be of different types, wherein the guidance system comprises:

• a plurality of storage-location displays;
• a master computer adapted to transmit instructions to the storage-location displays for indicating to a user of the warehouse storage locations and quantities of items to be picked from the storage locations in accordance with a picking order;
• and
• at least one controller connected to the plurality of storage displays and the master computer, the at least one controller allowing transmission of the instructions of the master computer in an addressed manner to the storage-location displays;
• wherein respectively one of the storage-location displays is arranged at least at some of the storage locations so that the respectively one of the storage-location displays is associated with the corresponding storage location, wherein the storage-location displays respectively comprise a light, which can be activated and deactivated, and at least one push button;
• and
• wherein the master computer is adapted to:
• i.) visually activate all of the associated storage-location displays, which have not yet been assigned a dedicated storage-location address;
• ii.) cause visual deactivation of one of the visually activated storage-location displays, if the one of the visually activated storage-locations display is selected by the user for selecting the associated storage location;
• iii.) respectively assigned one dedicated storage-location address to each of the selected storage locations;
• and
• iv.) return to step i.) until all of the associated storage locations, which have not yet 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.

A computer-readable data carrier comprising computer-executable instructions for performing the method of configuring an order-picking warehouse, the order-picking warehouse comprising:

• 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;
• wherein at least some of the storage locations are equipped 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;
• wherein the associated storage-location displays are connected to the master computer via the at least one controller, and to each of the controllers a dedicated controller address is allocated;
• the method comprising the step of 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-locations display 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 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.