Proteus powered Hindalco digital manufacturing platform wins this year's national manufacturing leadership award

#dltledgers collaboration with its client, Hindalco Industries Limited (Hindalco), an Aditya Birla Group company is one of mutual success. A case study where its client, Hindalco has been honored with the 2025 Leadership Award for Manufacturing Excellence at the Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave. This recognition highlights Hindalco's pioneering efforts in contract manufacturing digitalization, made possible through its collaboration with #dltledgers. By leveraging advanced digital transformation, Hindalco has redefined operational efficiency, visibility, and sustainability in contract manufacturing - an essential pillar of India's manufacturing growth.

#dltledgers is a global multi-party collaboration platform offering state of the art solutions in Multi-tier supply chain, Sustainability, Compliance and Digital finance. The enterprise offers clarity through the seamless virtualization of invisible data points across the value chain. #dltledgers flagship product, Proteus, enhances collaboration and authenticity, leveraging advanced virtualization technologies in Gen AI, Blockchain and Web3 frameworks to streamline data sharing, improve visibility and ensure global compliance.

As Government of India's, "Made in India" cements its position as a global manufacturing powerhouse, with a projected 4.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the sector, leading enterprises like Hindalco are building global competitive advantage with cutting-edge digital transformation to enhance operational efficiency and ensure end-to-end value chain visibility. Contract manufacturing and tolling visibility is now a strategic imperative, unlocking cost leadership, agility, and compliance in an increasingly competitive global landscape.

Pioneering Contract Manufacturing Visibility with Multi-Party Collaboration

#dltledgers initiative assisted its client, Hindalco's transformation into a multi-party shared data collaboration, which has redefined contract manufacturing operations with inclusion of its ecosystem. Through this initiative, Hindalco has gained immediate cost advantage, real-time visibility across its value chain, seamless collaboration across multiple stakeholders external to the company, and automated compliance management, ensuring optimal efficiency, transparency and sustainability in its supply chain.

This breakthrough was made possible through Proteus, the cutting-edge blockchain-enabled data exchange platform that drives multi-party transactional efficiency with ease. By leveraging Proteus, the client has established seamless supplier collaboration, real-time production tracking, and automated compliance management, ensuring unparalleled transparency and efficiency in contract manufacturing. By eliminating inefficiencies, digitizing contract management, and integrating sustainability tracking into supply chain processes, few of the immediate benefits are 12-15% reduction in operational costs, 50% decrease in manual workflows, enhanced compliance with regulatory and environmental standards, real-time visibility across the supply chain, improved scrap and unprocessed material management in sub-contracting, increased efficiency in packaging material usage, optimized delivery management for reduced lead times and costs.

As a testament to the successful collaboration with #dltledgers, Poorav Sheth, CDIO of Hindalco Industries said, "This award is how collaboration and innovation can drive agility in solving complex business challenges. I am truly proud of the ownership demonstrated by our management and manufacturing teams at Hindalco in embracing these series of transformations for a more collaborated ecosystem. The Proteus platform from #dltledgers has enabled rapid deployment of multi-party collaboration capabilities, and we are excited about the opportunities it unlocks for our ecosystem."