Sector Overview

Globalization has opened up diverse opportunities across geographies; however in recent years internationalization has come under tremendous pressure with stringent enforcement by policymakers locally & globally with operations, technical, protectionism, licensing and other important aspects to secure stakeholders interest and rights across the value chain. This new trade & customs outlook is focused on sustainable economies & has shifted the global regulatory landscape & impacted all the operators including the one focused on laundering, financial transaction, data protection & related IT security services, politics, legislation, CO2 reduction. Hence, a successful trade framework would incorporate authenticated supply chain solutions with customized customer service to expedite international freight forwarding shipments in compliance with National, Regional and International regulations.

There is nothing inevitable about global economic integration. Underlying inefficiencies with operations, limited real-world data, disrupt business models have increased trade depression spread across the world. Tariff wars began to hurt a trade recovery as stakes are higher with COVID-19, Brexit and US-China trade tensions and could even fuel serious global recession in the years to come.

Underpinned by a sustainable & transformational business framework is a blend of connoisseur's expertise and powered by Advanced Analytics, Artificial intelligence/ML to transform challenges & crises into opportunities. We work closely with clients to consistently make better decisions to seize competitive advantage across the whole spectrum regionally & globally to achieve growth by enhancing their resilience, getting the right classification, identifying the right opportunities in a timely manner to reduce duty strategies, capitalizing of free-trade agreements transform challenges & crises into opportunities, customer preferences, cost management, lean implementation etc.

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Our Value Proposition


Go-To-Market  

How ORA helps to address business questions?

Innovative technological advancements have considerable potential for boosting developing country’s exports. International trade is an important engine for the growth of the global economy & compliance is an integral part of any successful trade program. Digital technologies are transforming the style and shaping the market with new dynamics and disruptive forces, blurring lines of market segmentation, crowdsourcing platforms, re-defining competition definition resulting in the radical changes in product & service sector, value chains, driving the entry of new entrants enabling strong trade enforcement to ensure seamless cross-border movement.

The Olive Ridley Advisory Trade practice empowers the clients with strategic & actionable insights, the global market & business intelligence, predict the magnitude of change & its impact, handle complex and challenging documentation, customs management, marketing, attractive ROI, competitive insights, export controls, sanctions, corporate strategy & governance, experts recommendation to execute transformational changes to navigate & unfold the opportunities in 360-degree view in alignment with the forward-looking plans of the companies and managing compliance & controlling duty costs effectively.

ORA’s consultants have deep industry understanding & expertise to cater to the complete value chain across the C-suites or decision-makers to respond to niche problems areas by understanding market dynamics, preferences & shifts in the business to tackle complex trade issues and mitigate risk and liability. Our tailor-made approach is a blend of strategic intelligence and analytics; nourished by recommendations of an unrivaled network of connoisseurs & powered by advanced analytics to address the complex business challenges, supply chains, integrate internal workstreams or business functions to ensure impactful results to achieve better performance, sustainable growth, capture market share, people transformation, increase RoI etc.

We have a range of services to embrace the change across the international trade value chain in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Chemicals, Industrials, Medial technology, Retail and Technology:

  • Opportunity assessment: Develop a strategic roadmap to attain sustainable profitability & growth. We help clients by devising practical strategies to address the complex business question to informed better decisions that cover the market landscape, customer origination, product differentiator & propositions, improving their competitive positioning, retention capabilities optimized level of investment, minimizing cost, risk & make it easier for implementation
  • We help the organization to identify and evaluate opportunities for growth through acquisition and new service development.
  • Our consultants provide comprehensive customs classification services, valuation planning, transfer pricing coordination, pricing and payments for intangibles, origin determination, preparation of transaction documentation (LOL, FCO, ICPO SCO, BCL, POP, RWA, etc.), drafting sale and purchase agreements, commercial contracts in transit trade, verification, duty reduction strategies, customs audit support & indirect tax due diligence
  • We help you embedding analytics into operation & change enablement using our analytics platform
  • Devise and implement comprehensive and efficient customs and trade processes and procedures strategy
  • Compliance: We manage the complete regulatory engagement lifecycle across multiple jurisdictions, help you to navigate emerging laws & their impact on your organization, devise a regulatory strategy, IP management, documentation, reporting & analytics, licensing, global supply chain safety & design comprehensive and innovative compliance solution for our clients in compliant with government regulations
  • We provide ML-based data engineering predictive modeling and BI assessments visualization, RPA, Agile Business Intelligence & help you respond in real-time to complex business problems with cutting-edge technology
  • Mergers and Acquisitions: Execute value-creating deals by right target identification to evaluation and post-transaction integration to optimize the portfolio.
  • GTM & Commercialization strategy: We devise an actionable commercial strategy to ensure a successful product launch.
  • Customer analytics: Develop the digital strategy to engage each stakeholder & brand awareness
  • Data analytics: Data-driven scalable strategies to develop & implement end-to-end project management & prepare you for speed to market; we cater complete range including Partner engagement strategy, integration, viewership metrics, Vendor Selections, Scenario-Based Planning Model, REMS, Supply Chain Network Design, Capacity planning & to succeed in a digital world 
  • We articulate an approach to handle any interactions with customs authorities in a short span
  • We leverage Salesforce to maximize their potential & close gaps in the sales strategy & Improve sales by channelizing right marketing strategies powered by AI



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ORA Services


Strategic & Market intelligence

Our strategic team strives to get the best solution for you to answer your right questions “at the right time, in the right way” to feed your business decisions. We help clients refine their superior strategies based on actionable corporate intelligence to enable key business decisions to have forward-looking utility globally about their competitor’s key targets, strategies, assumptions, and capabilities.

We help our Trade clients to refine their superior strategies based on actionable corporate intelligence to enable key business decisions to have forward-looking utility globally about their competitor’s key targets, strategies, assumptions, and capabilities. Our approach takes into account business requirements, trends and provides a holistic view to manage, consider each component of data in the pyramid.

We aim to deliver (but not limited to):

  • Intelligence deliverables
  • Early warning of competitive threats
  • Strategic & tactical decision making to gauge external environment

And address key questions (but not limited to):

  • Are you looking for geography expansion?
  • How competitors are positioned? Where should you position yourself?
  • How can I enter a new market?
  • Which product service of your company is right for you? What would be an expected RoI?
  • How and which customer segments should we target now?
  • What is the growth potential? What is the market size? ”
  • What are the pitfalls?
  • How to win in a fiercely competitive market?
  • What would be an ideal pricing strategy?
  • What is the current regulatory landscape? & which ones you should require? What would be an ideal strategy to secure regulatory buy-in?
  • What are the customer & regular requirements?
  • How is my consumer base segmented?
  • What are the consumer preferences?
  • What would be an ideal strategy to perform on a new technology platform for better monetization?
  • Should we be a vertically integrated investment firm?
  • How do we continue to grow on an organic basis?
  • Where do we need to be located to protect our origination and grow our business?”
  • What new areas of payments should we explore given the available market opportunities and our capabilities?
  • Are you paying a competitive price for their services?
  • How do we prioritize the market & shape the market for your business case?
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Process Automation & Digitalization

Business intelligence becomes a mandate with huge data sets rolling over each day to the organizations. Every sector requires an informed data-driven business decision to expand in this competitive market. We support technology clients to transform their organizations using our intelligence services, at the right time and in the right hands to ensure they have a competitive edge with actionable and impactful insights. We support leaders to transform their organizations using our intelligence services, at the right time and in the right hands rigorous management of your data to ensure they have a competitive edge with actionable and impactful insights.

Our teams of consultants are well versed and upgraded with the latest technology trends & understand underlying customer needs, competitive dynamics, and economics. An expert business intelligence consultant such as ORA not only will mitigate this risk, but ensure your organization achieves new levels of success, we provide multiple scenarios or conclusions using the same data set. A huge amount of new data generated in the world today are unprecedented.

ORA offers the following key services (but not limited to):

  • BI Assessments
  • Dashboard Development
  • Agile Business Intelligence
  • Sales Forecasting
  • AI Based cost reduction models
  • Insights delivery
  • RPA for Data Entry
  • Automating Tasks and Decisions
  • Master Data Governance Strategy
  • KPIs and Reporting
  • Regulatory Data Assurance
  • Data Processes, Procedure, and Ownership
  • Documentation and corrective action plan preparedness


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Mergers & Acquisitions

With a global scale and a regional footprint, we have the business acumen to churn out the rights to enter meaningful deals to maximize value for our Trade stakeholders & make sure all critical markers of success and failure including risk mitigation strategies are included in your M&A process. End-to-end capabilities with the best pricing proposition differentiate us over other players. Whether you’re in the early stages of assessing a deal, or falling short of the value you expected from a prior acquisition, ORA’s approach to integration linked with the culture to business can help accelerate and augment the envisioned results & help you understanding the key question as What tools do you have to make it profitable & making a right decision? Or Are you lack of rigorous target decision criteria? Or How did you arrive to deal with evaluation parameters? & many more.

ORA’s experts can help your company find hidden gems with discovered and innovative lenses that could bring advanced deal makers to the table by:

  • Utilizing AI to deal with search and targeting
  • Targeted and innovative search filters to derive new potential targets and search uncommon platforms to unfold potential risks
  • Incorporate the “independent industry experience”
  • Overall growth strategy & forward-looking utility
  • Bridge critical gaps & insights on efficiency opportunities
  • Support business-critical milestones
  • Optimize cash flow and earnings


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Regulatory & Risk management

An extensive & broad list of compliance requirements & timelines is getting challenging each day. Complying with the legal obligations and directives across global regulatory environments is the foundational requirement to improve business at today’s dynamic pace.

ORA’s global consultants and teams are well-practiced in assessing emerging regulatory (timelines, deadlines etc.) landscape across industries for governance, third party risks, developing advocacy strategies, enhance transparency to risk management systems, responsive to changes, crisis management & defining process improvements to facilitate informed business decision in compliant with regulations.

Licensing, franchising, supplier or distributor agreements are compounded and non-compliance with the provisions of these agreements can directly arrest the neck of the business. We navigate through each component of the agreement process & ensure high-end service to cater complete value chain of licensing, resolve disputes with partners, minimize overcharge revenue leakage, maximizing the value contract & manage the associated risk.

We help in addressing a range of questions (but not limited to):

  • Navigate through a regulatory framework for operations regionally or globally to achieve seamless operational capacity
  • Gap Analysis
  • Managing the B2B & B2C license requirements & issues
  • Effective Licensing Position & reporting maintenance
  • Registration
  • Ensure appropriate levels of due diligence and document management for third parties vendors
  • Monitoring licensee portfolio
  • Help in the accurate documentation for eSports & gaming space complying with all regulations for operations
  • In-time management of the corporate and IT policies
  • levels of due diligence and document management for third parties vendors
  • Guiding through new advancements in the payment and money laundering risks
  • Regulatory and compliance training with our experts at the enterprise level & manage the complete lifecycle for any game across multiple jurisdictions


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Technological watch

Making an informed decision with a minimized risk & anticipating switch is a noticeable competitive advantage & reinforces ORA in a leading organization. Tools such as strategic and tactical surveillance paired with technology watch warrant an accuracy in deciding the level of information, organization & insights to detect opportunities and anticipate changes in the competitive environment. Umpteen times both present & emerging threats for modern business unceasingly cropping. Implementing modern tools such as competitive intelligence, benchmarking & counterintelligence has become essential to survive in this hypercompetitive global market.

We help our Trade clients offer a range of services to cater basic to advanced needs of your organization to ensure you are aware of macro & micro factors impacting or may have an impact on the business. Help you correctly understand the market positioning to leverage any portfolio gaps & recommend emerging technologies and the ones that are becoming obsolete, the latest innovations/technology advancements in your domain, competitor strategies, recently published key patents, and new entrants in the market.

And address key questions (but not limited to):

  • Is the data systematically captured?
  • How are we captured in customers minds?
  • How the new technology landscape looks like & how faster is likely to be adopted?
  • Are there any new entrants?
  • Which are preferable platforms?
  • Which technology is trending?
  • How customers are responding to them?
  • Did you fetch the complete data for analysis?
  • What are the critical watch factors?
  • Are you utilizing the best customhouse broker for your specific needs?
  • Where do we need to be located to protect our origination and grow our business?
  • What IT systems, capabilities and back-office do we need to meet creditors’ and debtors’ needs?
  • How does your business stack up against your competitors?
  • Cost per unit, time to produce, product/service quality, effectiveness, time to market, customer satisfaction and loyalty, brand recognition
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Licensing & compliance management

An extensive & broad list of compliance requirements & timelines is getting challenging each day. Complying with the legal obligations and directives across global regulatory environments is the foundational requirement to improve business at today’s dynamic pace. ORA’s global consultants and teams are well-practiced in assessing emerging regulatory landscape across industries for governance, third party risks, developing advocacy strategies, enhance transparency to risk management systems, responsive to changes, crisis management & defining process improvements to facilitate informed business decisions in compliant with regulations.

Licensing, franchising, supplier or distributor agreements are compounded and non-compliance with the provisions of these agreements can directly arrest the neck of the business. We navigate through each component of the agreement process & ensure high-end service to cater complete value chain of licensing, resolve disputes with partners, minimize overcharge revenue leakage, maximizing the value contract & manage the associated risk.

Our experts develop tailor-made solutions depending on your versatile & unique situation to cater as desired with the best result strategy. We cover the complete value chain from monitoring licensee compliance to licensing requirements.

Our featured service under these segments are (but not limited to):

  • Gap Analysis
  • Managing the B2B & B2C license requirements & issues
  • Effective Licensing Position & reporting maintenance
  • Registration
  • Ensure appropriate levels of due diligence and document management for third parties vendors
  • Monitoring licensee portfolio
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Brand strategy & Marketing

A resolute strategy is censorious when the path to growth is erratic & business leaders need to make their own way to survive and grow in the industry. Profile, position, investment in your brands offer transformational growth. Using our evince methodology, we create unique brand experiences to unfold consumers behaviors, gain a distinct perspective. Actionable analytics & detailed knowledge help to identify the gaps, improve positioning & connect with customer minds at the right time for our Trade stakeholders.

ORA advisory group helps companies optimize their sales & marketing strategy 360-degree view & yield value-creating commercial strategy by prioritizing opportunities that reflect what the brand will and will not do. We leverage the combination of behavior knowledge, segment behaviors and preferences based on current knowledge, receptiveness to brand, decision drivers, barriers to change, insight databases, partnership with digital platforms to attain actionable insights & Articulate the value you bring to each customer. It’s beyond selling, we reach customer minds with our unique strategy & deliver desired outcomes. We aim to help you transform in a holistic way that’s sustainable and scalable relentlessly. Where should you spend your next dollar? An organization must decide to choose the right approach to drive their marketing initiatives to achieve a breakthrough in the consumer behavior cycle by leveraging technology advancements.

Direct to the customer, we help organizations develop and execute successful strategies by:

  • Articulate an approach to cater to consumer interest from short to long term milestones for the enterprise
  • Customer sentiments deep dive to map out their thoughts and preferences to provide actionable results
  • Pivotal strategies to establish & maintain end to for online retail business via digital platform strategy
  • Empirical models for dynamic demands & consumer preferences
  • Leverage Salesforce to maximize their potential & enhance customer experience by monitoring & closing gaps in the sales strategy


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Environmental, Social and Governance

Amid sweeping complex regulatory change, various ESG-focused regulations are taking shape and firms are under consistent commitment and pressure to respond to swiftly evolving requirements. Organizations and investors are considering sustainability as a prerequisite of any strategic & operational decision to address major global challenges across sectors; hence ESG assessments have become an integrated part of any managed portfolio more than ever before. The adoption of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations is a driver of innovation and new opportunities that create long-term sustainable value for business and society. The Embedded sustainability framework successfully results in a positive impact on business performance including measurable risk with a robust and clearly defined implementation strategy. Robust ESG framework has the potential to build the resilience of companies & create long-term value creation and represents a market-based framework to guide investors better align their portfolios.

The ESG experts at ORA facilitate all the facets of ESG implementation into the portfolio from the development of the strategic framework to reporting and staying compliant with regulatory requirements. Our team will help in exclusionary screening and work alongside you to develop a robust transformational strategy, provide an implementation roadmap of sustainability and shape your ESG investment strategy.

Bespoke research that leverages our extensive expertise with deep understanding and analytical prowess to offer our clients true intelligence services, and practices to drive resiliency and competitive advantage as they navigate complex problem-solving across the entire process cycle to achieve their ESG goals & We’re committed to net-zero strategies.


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Supply chain & Procurement intelligence

Operational excellence has become a critical strategic organizational requirement to compete in a dynamic environment. Globalization has opened up diverse opportunities across geographies; however in recent years internationalization has come under tremendous pressure with stringent enforcement by policymakers locally & globally with operations, technical, protectionism, licensing and other important aspects to secure stakeholders interest and rights across the value chain. Recent advancements in technology, delivery platforms, digital payment models require an adoption at a faster pace to outperform in the market and warrant jettisoning traditional operations. In today’s complex & dynamic business environment, companies strive to assess the compatibility of their strategy across product or service cycles for guiding investment decisions or revamping the allocated resources to new segments with the needs, resources, and objectives of the organization. Should we be in this business? Should we add a new business? Will it be a sustainable business? How to secure substantial market share? How to increase market share? Should we launch a new product in this geography? Are we working with the right suppliers? What levers should we use to negotiate a better deal with incumbent suppliers? Are we paying the optimal price? Do best-in-class companies adopt a different engagement model? What benchmarks should we include as part of the contractual terms? Where are new threats emerging?

ORA’s consultants have deep industry understanding & expertise to cater to the complete value chain across the C-suites or decision-makers to respond to niche problems areas by understanding market dynamics, preferences & shifts in the business to navigate disruption & operational challenges, mitigate risk and liability with the actionable strategy and practices to drive resiliency and competitive advantage. Our strong heritage in custom research has evolved over our 16 years in business to include capabilities well beyond insight gathering. Bespoke research that leverages our extensive expertise with deep market understanding and analytical prowess to offer our clients true intelligence services as they navigate complex problem-solving across the entire product life cycle. ORA’s tailor-made approach is a blend of strategic intelligence and analytics; nourished by recommendations of an unrivaled network of connoisseurs & powered by advanced analytics to address the complex business challenges, supply chains, integrate internal workstreams or business functions to ensure impactful results to achieve better performance, building resilience and sustainability profitable growth, capture market share, increase RoI etc. We have a range of services to embrace the change across the supply and logistics value chain in Aviation, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Chemicals, Industrials, Medial technology, CPG & Retail and Technology.


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