Tata Consultancy Services has agreed to acquire Porsche’s management and IT consulting subsidiary MHP as part of a broader five-year strategic partnership aimed at expanding the use of artificial intelligence across the automaker’s operations. TCS will purchase 100% of the Germany-headquartered consultancy through one of its subsidiaries, subject to regulatory and competition approvals. The companies expect the transaction to close in the coming months, although financial terms have not been disclosed.
MHP employs more than 4,500 people worldwide and has operated for more than three decades as a specialist in automotive and industrial transformation. Its capabilities span artificial intelligence, SAP implementation, manufacturing digitalisation, connected mobility, cybersecurity, supply-chain management, software-defined manufacturing and programme management. The consultancy also serves clients in aerospace, defence, energy and the public sector.
MHP will retain its existing brand and continue operating as an independent consultancy after joining TCS. Porsche will remain a client, preserving a relationship under which MHP has delivered technology and transformation programmes across the automaker’s value chain. The ownership change is intended to give MHP access to TCS’s international delivery network and wider portfolio of engineering, consulting and technology capabilities. The proposed acquisition remains subject to customary approvals.
Alongside the acquisition, TCS will establish a dedicated AI Mobility Centre of Excellence for Porsche. The centre will work across engineering, manufacturing, business operations and customer experience, with a mandate to convert AI concepts into governed, production-scale systems. Planned work includes intelligent manufacturing, operational resilience, product engineering and software-defined mobility.
The partnership combines MHP’s sector-specific consulting and implementation experience with TCS’s engineering, AI and global delivery operations. It also gives TCS a larger base in Germany and deeper access to European automotive and industrial customers at a time when vehicle manufacturers are integrating software, data platforms and AI into product development and factory operations.
TCS chief executive and managing director K. Krithivasan said the combined organisation would focus on industrialising AI across Porsche’s value chain. Porsche chief executive Michael Leiters positioned the MHP transfer as part of the automaker’s strategy to concentrate resources on its core business while retaining access to the consultancy through the new partnership.
The transaction adds an acquisition component to what would otherwise have been a conventional technology-services contract. TCS gains an established European consulting workforce and domain-led client relationships, while Porsche secures a long-term technology partner with the capacity to deploy programmes across multiple geographies.
