4cost exhibiting at the EUROPEAN ENERGY Supply Chain Summit 2025

The first EUROPEAN ENERGY Supply Chain Summit 2025 took place in Berlin on 12 and 13 March 2025. The organiser, Berlin Institute Supply Chain Management GmbH, invited leading decision-makers from the energy sector/energy industry – from energy producers, grid operators and municipal utilities to suppliers, industrial end users, technology providers and political players – to discuss joint solutions for the energy transition. 4cost was on site as an exhibitor to present its advanced costing software.

F.l.t.r.: Ilja K. T. Führer (Managing Director, New Ideas Think Tank), Maria Burzlaff (Sales Employee, 4cost), Dr Hajo Drees (CEO, Berlin Institute Supply Chain Management), Joachim Schöffer (Managing Partner, 4cost) und Arnd Schüller (Sales Employee, 4cost)

During the conference, 250 participants and 35 international speakers engaged in intensive dialogue on four key topics:

1. Strategies to increase attractiveness for investors and ensure stable returns
2. Solutions to the challenges of limited natural and human resources in the European energy transition
3. Solutions that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the energy transition
4. Measures to increase the approval and support of society and customers for the energy transition and to create a basis for sustainable change

Particularly informative were the presentation by Günther H. Oettinger (Former Member and Vice-President of the European Commission; former Minister President of the State of Baden-Württemberg), in which he presented his view of the energy transition and called on politicians to take urgent action. ), in which he presented his views on the energy transition and called on politicians to take urgent action; the presentation by Kerstin Andreae (Chairwoman of the Executive Board, BDEW), in which she explained the views of the lobby association, which demands clear framework conditions for its members; and the presentation by Dr Georg Stamatelopoulos (CEO, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG) on ‘The future of energy: challenges and success factors for a sustainable transformation’.

Joachim Schöffer (Managing Partner, 4cost) and Arnd Schüller (Sales Employee, 4cost) were on site to make contacts and present the costing solutions from 4cost. The focus was on various new software functions for calculating sustainability factors such as the carbon footprint. Mr Schöffer also presented the 4cost costing software on the big stage as part of an innovation pitch.

‘During the conference, we were able to welcome around 50 visitors to our stand and show them the benefits of our solutions. The top topics of our dialogue partners were benchmarks, target costs and sustainability. We cover all of these,’ summarises Mr Schöffer. ‘We were able to make some high-quality contacts at C-level with Siemens, EnBw, Hitchai and Deutsche Bahn, among others.’

During the conference, Dr Hajo Drees (CEO, Berlin Institute Supply Chain Management) presented his latest publication ‘Successful CPOs’. In the book, 66 managers, including Mr Schöffer, report on their success strategies.

We would like to thank all participants, speakers and the organiser for the constructive discussions. We will certainly be exhibiting at the EUROPEAN ENERGY Supply Chain Summit again next year.