Collection: Pick and Load

The right warehouse picking equipment can reduce unnecessary walking, handling and delays between pick locations and packing stations. Carts and trolleys, pallet trucks, mobile powered workstations and sortation solutions can all help create a faster, more organised picking process for warehouses and fulfilment centres.

Typical equipment includes picking trolleys, pallet trucks, pallets, mobile workstations and sortation equipment. The best combination depends on your products, order volumes, warehouse layout and how goods move between storage, picking, packing and dispatch areas.

Improving picking speed starts by reducing unnecessary movement and bringing the right equipment closer to the operator. Mobile picking trolleys, pallet trucks and powered workstations can help employees move products, labels, scanners and other equipment efficiently around the warehouse.

A Mobile Powered Workstation provides portable power for equipment such as laptops, barcode scanners and label printers. Instead of repeatedly returning to a fixed workstation, operators can take essential technology directly to picking, receiving, inventory and dispatch locations around the warehouse.

Yes. A mobile powered workstation can provide a practical platform for laptops, barcode scanners and label printers, allowing warehouse teams to scan stock and produce labels at the point of activity. This can reduce unnecessary journeys to fixed computer or printing stations.

The best pallet truck depends on the pallets being handled, load weight, travel distance and warehouse environment. Manual pallet trucks provide a straightforward solution for moving palletised goods over shorter distances and are widely used across warehouses, factories, stockrooms and dispatch areas.

Consider the size and weight of the products being picked, aisle width, number of orders handled simultaneously and distance travelled during each picking cycle. A suitable picking trolley should provide sufficient capacity while remaining easy to manoeuvre around your warehouse layout.

Sortation equipment helps separate products and orders during the picking and fulfilment process. Using dedicated sortation bags, cubes or containers can make it easier to organise multiple orders, reduce picking errors and move completed orders efficiently towards packing and dispatch.

Pallet trucks, carts and trolleys can help operators move goods rather than carrying them manually. Selecting suitable material handling equipment for the weight, dimensions and movement of your products can improve workflow and help reduce unnecessary lifting and carrying around the warehouse.

Southgate supplies picking and loading equipment for UK warehouses, fulfilment centres, manufacturers and logistics operations. The range includes carts and trolleys, pallet trucks, pallets, mobile powered workstations and sortation solutions designed to support efficient movement of goods from picking through to dispatch.