Pick-to-window

A storage and order-picking system having at least one work station comprising:

• a picking zone assigned to the order-picking person;
• a window conveyor having conveying device, which comprises a plurality of optically distinguishable window locations, wherein each of the window locations corresponds to a permanently defined region of the conveying device which is configured for receiving of at least one of the piece goods, wherein the window conveyor extends through the picking zone;
• a plurality of access locations;
• a provision region, where different types of the piece goods are provided at the plurality of access locations, wherein the provision region is ranged relative to the window conveyor such that the order-picking person can grasp piece goods manually from each of the access locations and place same on the window conveyor;
• an order-picking control configured for controlling warehouse management and order processing in order to communicate information concerning one of the access locations and a removal quantity to the order-picking person in accordance with one of the order lines of the picking order;
• and an allocation device for allocating a free, and unoccupied, one of the window locations to the one of the order lines, based on selection and entry of the order-picking person after the one of the order lines was communicated the order-picking person, wherein the free one of the window locations is occupied after the allocation;
• and further having a window conveyor connecting, in terms of material flow, the picking zones of the work stations.

A method for manually and paperlessly picking piece goods at a work station in accordance with at least one order line of an existing picking order comprising the steps of:

• allocating the picking order to an order-picking person for processing the picking order line by line;
• communicating one access location and one removal quantity to the order-picking person corresponding to one of the order lines which is just to be processed;
• the order-picking person moves to the communicated access location and grasps the removal quantity of the piece goods from the access location;
• while the order-picking person moves and/or grasps, but at the latest after the order-picking person has grasped at least one first one of the piece goods of the removal quantity, the order-picking person selects a free, and unoccupied, one of a plurality of window locations of a window conveyor, which has not yet been occupied, wherein the window conveyor extends through a picking zone which is assigned to the order-picking person;
• informing the order-picking control on the selected window location;
• and
• placing the grasped piece good or piece goods on the selected window location.