Threaded Miami: Dan and Scott Lionello and Omnae

What if the real problem in supply chains is not visibility at the top, but the broken collaboration happening lower down the stack where the real work still runs on emails, spreadsheets, and mismatched systems?In this Day 1 Threaded Miami session, Scott and Dan Linonello of Omnae deliver one of the more memorable presentations of the event: a father-and-son talk built on decades of firsthand supply-chain pain. Their pitch is sharp. Omnae is not just another supplier portal for large enterprises. It is a natively multiplayer collaboration system built to actually work for the small and midsize suppliers who still carry a huge share of real operational complexity. Scott explains the core problem clearly: even when big companies have EDI, ERP, and supplier collaboration platforms in place, most of the actual execution still happens outside those systems. Small suppliers use different tools, different workflows, and often no real shared system at all. That creates constant mismatches in orders, invoices, revisions, quality issues, and delivery expectations. Omnae’s answer is to create a shared operational layer where enterprises get a digital twin of their supplier activity, while smaller suppliers get an actual usable application rather than a portal they are forced to feed. The talk gets more interesting when Dan takes the conversation into AI and agentic systems. His argument is blunt: most agentic tooling today lives safely in sales and reporting workflows because those domains can tolerate mistakes. Supply chains cannot. If an agent creates the wrong PO, approves the wrong operational change, or triggers the wrong action upstream, the damage is immediate and expensive. That is why Omnae treats agents as participants that can propose actions, but not execute them unilaterally. In their model, operational, legal, and financial commitments still require acceptance on the other side before a state change occurs. That makes this more than a software demo. It becomes a strong point of view on how AI should be used in operational supply chains: not as unchecked automation theater, but as a structured system for surfacing signals, proposing decisions, and escalating intelligently when confidence is not enough. Dan also explains how Omnae can pull signal from emails, WhatsApp, Slack, and direct system-to-system communication, turning messy unstructured supplier communication into something companies can actually analyze and act on. The origin story gives the whole session weight. Omnae was built from the Linonellos’ own manufacturing and sourcing experience, then hardened inside their own business before being turned outward as a product. One story in particular lands hard: a Boeing supply-chain issue that left 18 Dreamliners stuck on the tarmac over a tiny part and a revision mismatch. That experience helped shape Omnae’s multi-tier communication and permission model, designed to surface issues earlier and route them to the right level before they become major operational failures. This is a useful episode for anyone working in supply chain tech, manufacturing operations, procurement, industrial AI, or digital thread strategy. It is practical, skeptical of hype, and grounded in the ugly reality of how engineered products actually get made.#ThreadedMiami #SupplyChain #Procurement #Manufacturing #IndustrialAI #DigitalThread #SupplierCollaboration #Omnae #ERP #Operations #AI #AIAcrossTheProductLifecycle