Why OHRES
African trade needs African rails.
Legacy B2B platforms were built for US and EU supply chains. They do not speak PAPSS. They do not integrate with NICIS or ICUMS. They do not understand AfCFTA. THE OHRES is the first indigenous EDI and VAN provider built for African trade - on African rails.
Settlement
PAPSS-native settlement
African trade breaks at the payment rail. OHRES integrates PAPSS natively so cross-border transactions settle in local currencies, without USD correspondent chains, without three-day settlement windows.
- Cross-border payments in NGN, GHS, KES, ZAR, EGP and more
- Settlement inside the same platform that carries your EDI
- No USD round-trip, no correspondent bank delays
- Reconciliation tied directly to your trade documents
Compliance
AfCFTA-aligned by design
The African Continental Free Trade Area is not a marketing line for us - it is the regulatory backbone. OHRES maps rules of origin, tariff schedules and certificate-of-origin workflows into the same pipeline that moves your EDI.
- Rules of origin tooling on the roadmap
- Certificate of Origin document flows
- Tariff classification assistance
- 54-nation trade corridor coverage
Border
Customs at the border, integrated
Every African trade corridor dies at a customs desk. OHRES wires NICIS II (Nigeria), ICUMS (Ghana), KenTrade (Kenya), SARS (South Africa) and other customs authorities directly into your trade flows.
- Nigeria Customs (NICIS II) via OHRES e-Custom
- Ghana (ICUMS), Kenya (KenTrade), South Africa (SARS) on roadmap
- CUSDEC / CUSRES EDIFACT mapping
- Import and export declaration automation
Network
The world's carriers, on one pipe
Hapag-Lloyd and DHL Global Forwarding are live on OHRES today. Maersk, ONE, Evergreen, COSCO, ZIM, HMM and CMA CGM are wired and waiting on portal registrations - all via DCSA Track and Trace 2.2.
- 2 carriers live: Hapag-Lloyd, DHL Global Forwarding
- 6 DCSA T&T 2.2 adapters ready, awaiting portal keys
- Container-level status for African importers and exporters
- Freight document flows: IFTMIN, IFTMBF, IFTSTA, DESADV
Standards
80 EDI schemas, plus 26 partner overlays
X12, EDIFACT, Peppol. Generic schemas for every major trade document, and partner-specific overlays for Walmart, Target, Amazon, Maersk, CMA CGM, DHL, and more. Parse, generate, and route on one platform.
- 33 X12 transaction sets: 810, 850, 856, 997 and more
- 21 EDIFACT messages: CUSDEC, IFTMIN, INVOIC, DESADV, ORDERS
- 26 partner overlays across 18 partners
- Peppol Access Point capability
Identity
Indigenous by construction
OHRES is Africa's first indigenous EDI and VAN provider. Not a reseller of a foreign platform. Not an Africa division of a US company. Built in Nigeria and Canada, for African trade, on African rails.
- Incorporated as OHRES INC. (Canada, 2017)
- Nigerian operating subsidiary: THE OHRES LTD (RC 9626254)
- Toronto + Lagos offices
- African team, African partners, African priorities
Compare us to the alternatives
Legacy platforms do not solve African trade. See how OHRES stacks up against OpenText, Cleo, SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce, Boomi, Orderful and MuleSoft - feature by feature, price by price.
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