Help please (Kebir Blue)

I'm loving the game so far but finding a few aspects very frustrating. If anyone can please help it would be greatly appreciated. I'm having trouble regarding sales, contracts, and supplies... as if that's not enough!

I'm in a small common market and have signed up for 30% production to go to the market. I have numerous companys always flashing red saying they've failed to meet the contract amounts but yet they show that amount in reserve and are holding many other months of inventory unsold! I have trade strat to be 0% but reflecting quality and drop 10% a month for unsold but yet they aren't selling much. I even keep having corporations that are contracted to not getting the materials and I have to manually conduct the sale so they can keep going. Keep in mind almost all of these companies are in markets where there is big supply shortages worldwide. What's up with all this?

Another issue is with my enterprise. It's even harder to keep them supplied with materials! Is there any way to directly setup a contract with those corporations? I only ever see the option to setup contracts with countries or their companies.

Is wish I knew of a way to also setup internal sales contracts within the enterprise other then using the common market. Dont get me wrong I want to supply those people as well but after 30% I want to be able to dedicate some production amounts to make sure my own companies remain supplied.

Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can offer in these areas and any other tips!

Go to automation and find the box below "retain product" for contracts. But a check in that box.

Also in the automation section find the box below "purchase supplies". Put a check in that box too.

Make sure your trade strategy is +0 as opposed to actually 0. Depending on where you enter the number it could be a disaster. Also +12 would be much better if there are shortages.

Let me rephrase. If you company's produces quality 294 then you want that on the market at 308 of market price.

Go to the link "corporations" at the top of the screen, not left. In the pull down window find "manage" and then find "trade strategies".

Thanks for the advice!
I had the automation options of put production on the market, retain production for contracts, and
buy supplies already checked :/ Is there any other thoughts on why the stuff wouldn't be getting sold and why it wouldn't be fulfilling the contracts? Here's an example:
Contracts not kept. The quantity promised in contracts exceeds the current production. Check your contracts. (so here's the result when I check the contracts for that company)
Local Market Contracts 104,488 33.21 %
Common Market Contracts 0 0.00 %
International Contracts 0 0.00 %
----------+ ----------+
Total Contracts 104,488 33.21 %
Production Last Month 314,625 Click to see history

I should have had 210k+ beyond what was promised. Go figure :/

Thanks for the tip about the + or - on trade strategy. I've adjusted that and will have to note the results tomorrow.

Oh another thing. Is it correct there is no way to setup direct contracts with companies owned by an enterprise other then via common market? Or am I missing something? If you indeed can't set them up what's the best way to supply them from your country other then manually selling supplies to the enterprise and then manually distributing them?

There is a way.
Links are: Corporation> Products Offered> Reveiw Corporation Contracts.
You must know the name of the country where the purchasing corp is, and the amount it needs.
When you type in the country name, and click, you will get a name of a company in the country that uses your product. Scroll down the list until you get to the name of the company you want to contract with. Enter amount, click the little box.

Go to messages, and click on the message about the contract offer. Click accept. This assumes that you are contracting ceo corp to ceo corp, which is what you asked about.

Are you sure you have your strat set right? It might be simpler to raise the price you are willing to pay for goods bought on the open market. If you set buy strats at about 107% ( NOT 7% , a common mistake ) of market price, raise 7%/ month, you really should have very little trouble keeping your corps running.

And remember you can't make money buying and selling everything to yourself. I hope this helps.
I know that this game is somewhat confusing, but you will get the hang of it, if you keep at it. Many players are college educated, but I never even finished high school, and managed to figure it out, so you will too!

I figured out the problem I think. What was happening is I was having a worker shortage but not a huge one. Well the amount produced was reduced but still more then enough to fill the contracts. The problem is the contracts were based on full production % and then the game was recalculating the amount to be reserved for contracts based on the diminished amount of production. This created an artificial inability to fulfill contracts.... a flaw in the game dynamic imo
e.g. to illustrate:
normal production= 100 units
30% promised in contracts= 30units
limited production to 70% = 70 units produced
game recalculated amount to reserve for contract= 21 units
shortcoming in reserved amount 9 units despite having 70 units to sell to meet the contracts before putting on world market

Now that I know what caused it I can better avoid or adjust for it but I think the game should have an option to address this issue.