each day at commencement of batch fulfillment the osps system preferably guides the operator in retrieving the appropriate medication container from osps storage as will be described such guidance presupposes that a library of medicine containers is maintained and that each such medicine container be logged into the osps system so that its location and contents are known to the local osps computer consequently as a precursor to batch fulfillment each new medication container is logged into osps storage by a barcode rfid scan or similar identification scan e g of the manufacturer 39 s barcode the manufacturer applied cap must also be replaced by an adapter cap to be described which is separately labeled all this occurs at step 720 at step 725 based on the medication container login the osps system guides the operator in properly storing the new medication container the osps system as described below includes separate storage locations for three types of medication containers location 1 u2014 no special handling of container location 2 u2014 refrigeration required location 3 u2014 light sensitive medication container each storage compartment within each location may be enclosed by a magnetically actuatable door so that access to each location may be electronically controlled by the local osps computer alternately each storage compartment within each location may be illuminated by an led light so that access to the proper location may be electronically guided by illumination of the proper led as another alternative each storage compartment within each location may be equipped with a light curtain so that the local osps computer can monitor access to the proper location all these and other suitable forms of user guidance selection are considered to be within.