GAINS On Podcast: S3 E1 – OG+E Planning for the Storm Inside an Electric Utility Supply Chain

Oklahoma Gas and Electric has about 50,000 SKUs in inventory and doesn’t sell any of them. Everything they stock is there to keep the power on. That makes Caleb Bonar’s job as Lead Supply Chain Demand Planner a little different from most.

At the 2026 GAINS Summit in Chicago, GAINS On host Joe Davis sat down with Caleb to talk about planning when nothing gets sold and how one bad storm can make any random Tuesday look like Black Friday.

Stay tuned as they get into…

• Moving decisions out of spreadsheets and into business rules that stay put.
• How utilities help each other out when the weather gets ugly.
• Convincing an operations team that safety stock is a calculated buffer.