a rack extending along longitudinal and height directions of the system and comprising a plurality of storage locations configured to store source pallets;

a gantry robot including a manipulation unit configured to transfer the articles;

a packing position configured to buffer a target pallet;

a plurality of conveyors; and

a control;

wherein, for each of the orders, an order-specific packing pattern is determined for automatically packing, by the gantry robot, several of the articles in accordance with the respective order from one or more of the source pallets on a target pallet in the packing position;

wherein each of the conveyors comprises a receiving position, which is positioned within the rack and configured to receive the source pallets, as well as a delivering position, which is positioned within an action space of the gantry robot and configured to provide the source pallets;

wherein the gantry robot defines the action space, within which the manipulation unit is movable and which contains the packing position and the delivering positions of the conveyors; and

wherein the control is configured to cause that such of the source pallets are transported from the storage locations of the conveyors via the receiving positions to the delivering positions of the conveyors, which include the articles required for the packing in accordance with the respective order-specific packing pattern.

retrieving source pallets, which store the articles required for packing on a target pallet in accordance with an order-specific packing pattern, from storage locations of a rack in accordance with the order-specific packing pattern;

delivering the retrieved source pallets to receiving positions of conveyors, wherein the receiving positions are arranged within the rack, wherein the conveyors extend from the rack to a gantry robot arranged along a longitudinal side of the rack laterally adjacent to the rack;

transporting, by the conveyors, the delivered source pallets from the receiving positions to corresponding delivering positions of the conveyors, which are positioned within an action space of the gantry robot; and

transferring the articles, which are required for the packing on the target pallet in accordance with the packing pattern, by a manipulation unit of the gantry robot, wherein the target pallet is provided at a packing position within the action space of the gantry robot.