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In a commissioning process, variable lines are produced from articles of a variable supply of goods wherein each line consists of a selected number of groups consisting of a variable number of articles of the same type. A dispenser arrangement with a dispenser (D.sub.xyz) with an inlet matrix (SE) and an outlet matrix (SA) and buffers (P) between the matrices is used. Articles assembled into transport units with auxiliary packaging and/or transport material are supplied to the dispenser arrangement. The articles are individualized from the transport units of goods, the individual articles are fed through the inlet matrix into the buffers and transported in the buffers to the outlet matrix. From the outlet matrix articles are removed to collect lines of a predetermined combination and the collected articles are assembled to form line units using auxiliary packaging and/or transport material. The auxiliary packaging and/or transport material is supplied from the individualization step to the line assembly step. The dispenser (D.sub.xyz) is an assembly of x times y buffers having a capacity z. If at the inlet (SE) in each of the buffers always the same product is introduced, then in each plane from SE to SA the 'profile' is the same and the buffer is ungrouped. However, as soon as the product type at the inlet SE changes, then the particular buffer is grouped, its capacity is subdivided into different capacities Z.sub.partial and there is a profile within the dispenser. It therefore becomes possible to always operate the dispenser with its maximum variety, which greatly increases the commissioning throughput.

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