# The Challenge of Getting ‘First-Mile’ Visibility of Soft Commodities

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Podcast: [The SupplyChainBrain Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-supplychainbrain-podcast-1976168)
Published: 2026-04-24T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Getting “first-mile” visibility of soft commodities is a hard problem.

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