US Patent 7623943 Methods and systems for pack-size-oriented rounding

Methods and systems are provided for packing a required quantity of products, wherein a plurality of different packages for packing the products and a plurality of packaging specifications comprising rounding rules are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided comprising determining a packaging specification out of a plurality of packaging specifications, extracting parameter values form the determined packaging specification and rounding, according to a predetermined packaging specification, the required quantity of products to a multiple of packages.