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I need some help with how to expand farm production capabilities. In this case, leather production.

Before i go into details, let me describe my company first. my company specialize in footwear products. I currently have 3-5 large factories per footwear products just to keep up with demands. (high heel shoes, shoes, sport shoes, sandals, slippers. I played with real world mod) At this stage, I already owned the whole supply chain, from farms and mines to retail. I have 46 retail shops, 22 factories, 10 farms, 3 mines, 24 R&D labs.

Now my problem lies in the high heels shoes and shoes product line. To produce those products, i need leather. And currently, I have a leather shortage problem.
For each line I have 5 large factories and the leather for those 5 factories are supplied by 1 large farm (using 3 livestock unit, 3 processing unit, 2 sales unit and 1 inventory unit). In the beginning, i don't have any problem with supplying those 5 factory with only 1 farm. But now, leather production can't keep up with the demands from my factories, even with level 8 processing unit. My whole production line stopped just because i didn't have enough leather.

I already set up 2 new large farms to produce leathers, but since its new, leather quality is still substandard so i cant use it (47 compared to 75). I tried to open leather wallet line just to help train my new farms, but after 2 years, my new leather quality has not reached 75 yet.

I tried using a warehouse to "dilute" my leather products so that I can get a consistent leather quality. But it seems that it didn't worked as i hoped. It seems to alternate stocking and selling 2 different leather with 2 leather quality. So, rather then consistent leather quality, what i got is one batch of 75 quality leather and the next batch i got 57 quality leather. That is not good.

I tried using a training programme from HQ, but since i have so many factory and retail shops, it seems that it didn't have any effect towards the 2 farms. Not to mention it's very very expensive.

Is there anything else i can do to tackle this problem?

*technically, i can use those 57 quality leather, and i can afford the consequences, but I don't want to.
*I'm sorry if my English are bad. English isn't my first language.

Maybe hire COO with high farming and training expertises and assign him to farms, this increases units levels and training speed.

indeed, you can never go wrong with a high farming expertise COO, if you really hate to hire a COO; supply your rich, qulity demanding city with high quality materials, and low price demanding cities with low quality materials.

Well... I already have a COO with 100 retail expertise. If i changed my COO, would my retail store loses some levels?

cbtendo wrote:Well... I already have a COO with 100 retail expertise. If i changed my COO, would my retail store loses some levels?

Yes, unless the level of 9 has been obtained via the store's training budget.

WilliamMGary wrote:

cbtendo wrote:Well... I already have a COO with 100 retail expertise. If i changed my COO, would my retail store loses some levels?

Yes, unless the level of 9 has been obtained via the store's training budget.

Ouch.. I rather keep my current COO to maintain high output in my retail stores. I guess its time to venture into a new product and let my high heel shoes and shoes become a limites quantity product.