ATA Freight, a leading global
logistics and freight forwarding services provider, announced today that its
Chief Operating Officer Matt Goker has been named by Supply & Demand Chain
Executive magazine as a 2021 Pros to Know award winner.
In its official announcement, Supply
& Demand Chain Executive stated that, “This award recognizes
outstanding executives whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders
looking to leverage supply chain for competitive advantage. This year’s list
includes individuals and teams from software and service providers,
consultancies and academia, trucking and transportation firms, professional
development agencies, sourcing, and procurement divisions, and more, all who
have helped supply chain clients and the supply chain community at large
prepare to meet many of today’s – and tomorrow’s – challenges.”
Supply & Demand Chain
Executive Editor-in-Chief Marina Mayer was quoted as saying, “These
winners collaborated, optimized, developed, educated and played a critical role
in the survival and success of their companies amid a global pandemic. I am
honored to recognize these individuals and teams and extend my utmost gratitude
to everyone in the supply chain industry for their time, efforts, and
innovations to keep our nation’s supply chains afloat.”
For his part, Goker has been a
catalyst both in driving solutions for ATA Freight’s customers, as well as the
industry. Notably, as its CEO, he was instrumental in the launch of a new agile
technology spin-off, Quloi, focused on providing quantified logistics solutions
that leverage Artificial Intelligence machine learning and deep logistics
expertise to transform and optimize the global supply chain. Goker also has
been leading a team of experts who create innovative shipping solutions for
essential industries and who made sure the world continued to have access to
critical necessities during the COVID-19 pandemic. These solutions allowed some
of the world’s largest enterprises to continue to feed the world. In addition,
he created and launched a special form of alliance across logistics service
providers that is based on end-to-end systems and operational integration to
provide a seamless experience to its customers on broader geographies. The
alliance was designed to provide access for small and mid-size business on the
supply chain enabling them to effectively compete with companies of much larger
size and resources.
“It is a great honor to be
named to Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know
list, especially during a period when the resilience of the global supply chain
has been a matter of great concern and impact,” said Goker. “Everything we are
doing at ATA Freight and through all of our parallel industry initiatives are
focused on strengthening the supply chain and helping all businesses operating
on the chain to become stronger, more efficient, and more profitable. We are
making great strides in that area, but still have a long way to go as the
pandemic demonstrated.”
Goker was also recognized for
his emphasis on sustainability. ATA Freight has long supported organizations
that strive to reduce carbon emissions. Among the nonprofits that ATA Freight
supports is Trees for the Future, whose mission is to end hunger and poverty by
training farmers to regenerate their land. ATA Freight has been supporting
TREES since 2011 and as a result of its support, over 167,000 trees have been
planted which will result in the sequestering of 9,662 metric tons of carbon
over a 20-year period. The company is also actively involved in EcoVadis the
world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability
performance and innovation, which earned ATA Freight the 2020 EcoVadis Bronze
Medal Sustainability Leadership Award.
ATA Freight, a leading global logistics and
freight forwarding services provider, announced that it has successfully
completed external audits for ISO reverification earning its updated ISO 9001
Certification (ISO 9001:2015 and 14001:2015). The comprehensive system audits
covered every aspect of the company’s operations.
“Achieving our updated ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications
was a very demanding process to which each of our staff members was fully
committed,” said ATA Freight COO Matt Goker. “Quality control in all areas of
our operations is of the utmost importance to us, and we continuously strive
for the highest standard of quality. By having evaluated our organization at
every level and met the stringent requirements of ISO 9001 and 14001, we are
confident that we are providing our valued customers with the highest quality.”
ISO 9001 and 14001 are quality management
system standards that were developed by the International Organization for
Standardization, which is an association of governmental and nongovernmental
organizations from many countries. The ISO 9001 and 14001 standards are
utilized to certify quality management systems that focus on continuous
improvement, customer satisfaction and the active involvement of both
management and employees in a process-based approach.
ATA Freight, a leading global logistics and
freight forwarding services provider, has a lot to celebrate in what is its 25th
year. The milestone anniversary comes in a year marked by several significant
achievements and most notably, the company’s ongoing contributions to help keep
the global supply chain moving despite the massive pandemic disruptions. Its
resilience and relentless focus on customer satisfaction over the past two and
half decades, coupled with its innovation, has enabled the company to continue
to grow and succeed in a fiercely competitive industry.
ATA Freight Chairman and CEO CJ Oguzhan stated,
“I cannot be prouder of our organization and how far we have come. Each of our
team members is passionate about our business and assuring the highest standard
of service, delivering personalized attention to each customer. Since our
inception in 1996, there have been significant changes in commerce and the
transport of goods across the globe. ATA Freight has been a steady catalyst in driving
many of those changes. Most notably, we have introduced advanced technologies
to help automate and streamlines operational processes. These, in turn, helped
pave the way for our latest role in the digitization of the supply chain
through our establishment of Quloi, an agile technology firm
we launched last year, and its groundbreaking platform, MyWay.”
Oguzhan also noted the longstanding relationships the
company has built with both customers and industry peers. “Our performance has
earned us loyal customers at the highest level. Across our over
30 offices in the USA, Turkey, India, China, Mexico, and Russia, we can cite
customers that have remained with ATA year after year. This, to us, is perhaps
the most important achievement of all. It is a testament that we are fulfilling
our corporate mission to continually pursue excellence and maintain customer
confidence, while advancing the optimization of the logistics industry and
those companies that depend on us.”
ATA Freight currently has a team of over 300
employees serving in various roles ranging from R&D to customer service. It
is one of the few logistics companies that has made technology innovation a top
priority. Over the years, its innovations have included: designing and building
in-container custom racks to optimize capacity usage, developing the first
honeycomb structured box that doubles the static loading capacity of the prior
option, and creating proprietary software solutions that facilitate its
customers’ intelligent decision-making and agile optimization. Its distinction
as a true innovator has been integral to its recognition as one of the world’s
fully-integrated, future-driven, global logistics service and solution
providers.
