Freight Cost Pressure
Rate variance, accessorial growth, and fragmented buying discipline reduce margin.
Transportation Strategy | Cost | Performance
Turn freight complexity into measurable operating advantage.
SSCA is an operator-led advisory firm helping shippers and carriers uncover cost leaks, strengthen carrier accountability, improve KPI discipline, and make sharper transportation decisions.
$3M+
freight savings delivered
300+
carriers managed
2,000+
daily loads supported
Executive Issues
The transportation agenda has moved from tactical execution to board-level performance.
Shrinking Margins, volatile capacity, invoice leakage, and weak performance visibility create hidden drag across the enterprise. SSCA helps leaders isolate the highest-value opportunities and move from diagnosis to action.
Carrier Accountability
Performance gaps persist when scorecards, review rhythms, and ownership are weak.
Contract Leakage
Invoice errors, fuel pass-throughs, and unmanaged exceptions erode savings.
Bid Readiness
Carriers lose enterprise opportunities when pricing, proposals, and reporting lack polish.
Operating Model Choices
Leaders need clarity on insourcing, outsourcing, technology, controls, and governance.
Who We Serve
Focused advisory for buyers and providers of transportation.
For companies that buy transportation.
Improve freight cost, service reliability, procurement discipline, carrier performance, invoice controls, and network visibility.
- Energy and industrial companies
- Manufacturers and distributors
- Retail and service organizations with transportation spend
For companies that provide transportation.
Strengthen commercial readiness, pricing discipline, KPI reporting, bid strategy, operational health, and profitability.
- Trucking and regional carriers
- Specialized carriers and fleet operators
- Transportation providers preparing for enterprise growth
Solution Pathways
Sharper packages for the problems transportation leaders actually face.
Reduce Freight Spend
Analyze spend, rates, fuel mechanisms, invoice accuracy, sourcing strategy, and savings opportunities without weakening service reliability.
Improve Carrier Accountability
Build scorecards, KPI rhythms, business reviews, performance expectations, and carrier governance that leaders can manage.
Build Transportation Intelligence
Create dashboards, operational health indicators, freight analytics, and executive-ready reporting for better decisions.
Prepare for Enterprise Bids
Help carriers improve proposals, pricing discipline, customer-facing reporting, bid responses, and enterprise customer confidence.
Redesign the Operating Model
Assess insourcing vs. outsourcing, process controls, technology needs, workflow design, and implementation priorities.
Signature Offer
SSCA Transportation Health Check
A focused diagnostic for leaders who need a practical view of cost leaks, carrier performance, contract exposure, KPI gaps, and near-term savings opportunities. It is designed to move quickly from assessment to action.
Transportation Health Summary
Freight Spend & Rate Opportunity Review
Carrier Performance Gap Assessment
Contract, Fuel & Invoice Leakage Review
Risk and Control Priorities
30/60/90-Day Action Roadmap
The SSCA Method
Discover, diagnose, analyze, recommend, execute.
Client Impact
Operating experience translated into measurable business impact.
SSCA is built on real transportation leadership, complex network management, KPI discipline, commercial negotiation, and operational transformation experience.
$16Minventory recovery impact through operational controls
$1.75Minvoice audit, systems, and process improvement savings
25+years across energy, oil and gas, procurement, and logistics
Globalleadership across complex carrier and transportation networks
Selected Impact
Examples of the work SSCA is built to deliver.
Market-driven freight negotiation
Identified savings opportunities across freight spend, rate structures, and carrier strategy, supporting more disciplined transportation buying.
$3M+ savings impactOperational loss reduction
Improved controls and accountability across operational processes, creating material recovery impact and stronger management visibility.
$16M recovery impactAudit process improvement
Used tools, systems, and process changes to reduce leakage and improve confidence in freight and transportation-related payments.
$1.75M savings impact
Insights
Executive briefings for transportation leaders.
Five transportation cost leaks most shippers miss
Where invoice errors, fuel structures, lane variance, and unmanaged exceptions quietly erode margin.
How carriers become enterprise-ready
The reporting, pricing, proposal, and operating disciplines customers expect from serious transportation partners.
When to insource vs. outsource transportation
A practical lens for control, cost, service, technology, and leadership bandwidth tradeoffs.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Serge Assi, MBA
Serge Assi is a global supply chain and logistics leader with 25+ years of experience across energy, oil and gas, transportation, procurement, and operational transformation. His background includes leadership roles with Chevron, Texaco, ENI/Agip, Sunoco Logistics, and World Fuel Services.
SSCA reflects a simple point of view: transportation advisory should be practical, data-driven, and grounded in what it takes to operate complex networks every day.
Engagement Models
Flexible ways to move from discovery to execution.
- Discovery Call
- Transportation Health Check
- Project-Based Consulting
- Implementation Support
- Fractional Advisory Services
Request a Health Check
Schedule a Transportation Health Check.
A focused advisory conversation to identify freight cost leaks, carrier performance gaps, and practical next moves.
- Freight spend and invoice leakage review
- Carrier performance and service issue discussion
- Practical next-step recommendations
SSCA is a division of SMYG, LLC.
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