Three customer projects receive prestigious business award

• WirtschaftsWoche presents MHP with Best of Consulting Award for successful 
  customer projects
• First place goes to a sustainability strategy developed at PowerCo SE in the 
  Automotive & Manufacturing category
• MHP takes second and third place for projects at Volkswagen AG and Mercedes-Benz

Ludwigsburg – The management and IT consultancy MHP has once again impressed the jury in the Best of Consulting 2025 competition organized by WirtschaftsWoche. It was presented with three awards for customer projects in the Automotive & Manufacturing, Organization, and Finance categories. 

Stefano Esposito, Partner at MHP: “For the fourteenth time in a row, we have taken home the prestigious award. All three awards are a strong endorsement of the quality of our consulting and development projects as well as the trust that our customers place in us.”

First place for sustainability strategy at PowerCo SE

To help achieve global climate targets, MHP worked with the battery cell manufacturer PowerCo from Salzgitter to develop a data-driven sustainability strategy. It identifies relevant drivers of carbon emissions, continuously monitors them, and takes targeted measures to reduce them, taking into account the dynamic production output of PowerCo along with economic factors. For this innovative concept, MHP won first prize in the Automotive & Manufacturing category.

Alexander Appel, Sustainability Transformation Manager and Project Manager: “An effective climate strategy is based on transparency, forecasting, targeted decarbonization measures, and integration into the corporate strategy. This is not possible without data and active management. For us, the award is valuable confirmation that sustainability is a fundamental aspect of business in the future.”

Second place for digital compliance competence center at Volkswagen

MHP took second place in the Organization category by developing and commissioning a modern compliance concept for data protection and the EU digital strategy at Volkswagen AG. At the heart of the project is a central compliance competence center that uses integrated process, knowledge, and product management along with automation to coordinate compliance with legal requirements across the various brands. This improves efficiency and transparency while providing better protection against compliance violations.

Daniel Andernach, Associated Partner at MHP: “The compliance competence center is the answer to current and future compliance challenges in the course of Volkswagen’s transformation. It combines regulatory requirements with digital solutions – and everything is scalable, optimized in terms of cost, and fit for the future.”

Third place for agile finance at Mercedes-Benz 

Third place went to MHP in the Finance category for its flagship project on agile financial planning and management at Mercedes-Benz AG. In conjunction with the customer, MHP developed an innovative approach to agile financial management and transposed it to “OneForecast” – a pioneering solution based on the SAP Analytics Cloud. The aim was to significantly improve forecasting accuracy in the short-term while enabling dynamic and flexible management.

“With OneForecast, we can combine precise forecasts with the ability to manage everything in an agile manner – a key success factor in making fast and sound decisions, particularly in increasingly volatile market environments,” explains Rico Schirmer, Associated Partner at MHP.

About Best of Consulting

The Best of Consulting Award is an annual industry award organized by WirtschaftsWoche. It recognizes consulting projects that are proven to generate a high degree of added value for customers – through innovative approaches, efficient implementation, or measurable success, for example. An independent jury assesses the entries on the basis of a standardized evaluation procedure.