Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the followingquote: “Thousands of items, articles, or products can be s tored at materials handling facilities. Theseitems can be stored at many differ ent locations in the materials handling facilities. When an order for agroup of the items is received, it is necessary to gather all the items together to comp lete or fill the order.To that end, a number of items can be picked and transpo rted along conveyors in trays, bins, cartons, orother containers for consolidat ion. The items can be organized or consolidated into groups of items thatfulfil l the order, for example, or for other reasons.”
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