Best of Consulting: MHP awarded yet again

• At the Best of Consulting awards of business magazine WirtschaftsWoche, MHP received two awards for successful customer projects
• The company took first place in category Manufacturing & Operations for the automation project FleetExecuter at Porsche
• MHP received the special award in category Sustainability for customer project Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) at Open Grid Europe (OGE), one of Europe’s leading gas transmission operators

Ludwigsburg – The project managers from MHP were able to take another trophy as well as two certificates back to Ludwigsburg. At this year’s Best of Consulting award ceremony organized by WirtschaftsWoche magazine in Düsseldorf, consulting companies that had completed outstanding projects were presented with their awards.

Markus Wambach, Group COO at MHP: “We are delighted about both awards, which once again attest to the excellent service provided by our consultants in collaboration with our partners and customers.”

MHP took first place in category Manufacturing & Operations with the automation of the intralogistics at the sports car manufacturer Porsche. Apart from many words of praise, Henning Hiebsch and his team received a trophy, a seal, and a certificate: “We are really proud of this award – a further accolade for our project in addition to the Allianz Industrie 4.0 award. It proves that we delivered outstanding service with our ICS solution FleetExecuter at Porsche.”

The fleet management solution FleetExecuter developed by MHP is deployed in the intralogistics at Porsche’s plant in Zuffenhausen. The cloud solution controls 27 automated guided vehicles (AGV) across a range of 750 meters, completing up to 1,600 material transports a day, including charging runs. This involves negotiating various new and old assets, such as lifts, high-speed doors, and existing facilities.

Special Sustainability award for CDR project

MHP took third place in category Sustainability for customer project Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) at Open Grid Europe (OGE), one of Europe’s leading gas network operators and an important actor and pioneer of the Energy Transition. Digitization plays a crucial role as a key element in implementing the transformation of the energy supply. CDR provides support with realizing the strategy and implementation in consideration of OGE’s values and for achieving defined SDG and ESG objectives. MHP developed a custom CDR process model for this purpose, with Marcus Schüler taking the lead:

“OGE was the first company where we put the model into practice, conducting the project along the five defined CDR dimensions of Digital Competence & Inclusion, Green IT, Tech4Good, Privacy, and Digital Ethics. Concrete measures were derived in each area – totaling over 80 concrete initiatives – feeding into eight SDG and 14 ESG key figures.”

Initiatives realized so far cover the entire spectrum of responsible digitization: In the area of Green IT, for instance, longer usage periods were achieved for IT equipment and smartphones. A network technology modernization program will allow energy consumption at the data center to be reduced by 40 percent from 2025. OGE attaches particularly high importance to Digital Competence & Inclusion: OGE employees thus volunteer to act as so-called Inspirers at the Hacker School. With this scheme, the gas network operator wishes to boost enthusiasm for IT in general and programming among girls and boys, particularly those from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background.

About Best of Consulting

The comprehensive consultant check identifies Germany's best business consultancy projects, thus creating clarity in a non-transparent market. Best of Consulting “Blue Chip”, Best of Consulting, and Best of Consulting “SME” examine the outcome of consulting companies’ projects and help customers in their search for the best possible consultant for their next project. A good reputation, boosted operating results, regular successful collaboration: There are many reasons why companies decide in favor of one consultancy or another. Under its Best of Consulting scheme, the WirtschaftsWoche magazine is granting awards to Germany’s best business consulting projects for the 14th time.