Securing Australia's supply chains: DNH Logistics on partnering with ORCA Opti

Organisation

DNH Logistics

Sector

Defence and pharmaceutical logistics

Focus

Secure, standards-aligned custody and supply-chain integrity

Contact

Justin Roderick, Director

Solution

ORCA Opti

DNH Logistics works in defence and pharmaceutical logistics, where the integrity and provenance of every item matters. In a defence setting, that means strict security controls over information and data, and confidence that what reaches the customer is genuine.

A compliance-led approach

For DNH, the requirement was an approach built around compliance from the outset, not bolted on afterwards, that could be shaped to how the business actually runs.

"By having an out-of-the-box solution that could be tailored to our needs that helps us with the compliance-led approach. So we're heavy on custody logistics. Doing in the defence setting, you need to have certain security controls of your information and your data, and ORCA Opti are very good at achieving that outcome."

Provenance, from cradle to grave

The value DNH is building towards is end-to-end proof: knowing where every item has been, and being able to show it.

"It's really about the future management of items, the provenance of items, and making sure that you've got immutable evidence of defeating counterfeit, particularly in the defence supply chain. For us, that's a key focus, to provide a ledger-based custody proof that the items the customer gets are genuine. So a cradle-to-grave approach, and we're seeing positive feedback from industry that that's where we should be."

For DNH, secure and standards-aligned operations are not a compliance overhead. In defence and pharmaceutical supply chains, they are how you prove the work was done properly, and how you earn the trust of the customers who depend on it.