Recommendation of Lettuce Production

        The total number of employees is insufficient and labeling takes too much time, to increase output labor should be increased.  The lettuce handling should be given importance because of keeping the pathogen effects away.  Pesticides can be used to limit chances of pathogen effects and thus yield can be enhanced (Hernandez, et al., 2015).  

        Hard work is required because of high competition in the market and to ensure quality standards. The greenhouse can be used for maintaining weather conditions as weather uncertainties cannot be avoided and controlled thus output can be increased.  For the problem of water weight loss, the greenhouse can provide the solution. Scientific methods can be used to ensure a safe environment in the workplace. The company should make it confirm that earth is without protuberances before planting lettuce and this will also provide good soil that supports the growth of plants. Thus through this chances of diseases can be reduced and the company can ensure good health of plants. The company should try to use raised beds for harvesting lettuce that prevents the plants from soil compaction and other issues. 

          The management is not efficiently balancing the input and output costs of the transformation process. The company should have capabilities to address and deal with the weather conditions changes and other uncertainties (Barbosa, et al., 2015). A single person cannot control the weather changes, in fact, the company needs to use the best methodology for maintaining the weather conditions to curb the problems.  Thus the company can compete their competitors fairly. They should always have information about competitors and knowledge to remain ahead of their competitors forever. The response of the company is crucial for the competition in order to expand sales and build competitive advantage.

        Customer feedback can help out the company in identifying the needs for improvement and taking actions for making the customers satisfied. Therefore companies should pay attention to the customer’s feedback. There are several ways of getting feedback as by investing in consultant or third party to monitor the perceived values of the company online and by getting the idea about the area where the company is not doing right with the customers. Thus the company for the solution company will select the customer-facing employees.

        The firm should have a monitoring system for performance. There is a need to make it sure that firm is encouraging to maximize the high production volume. However, it also appraises that whether all employees are working in accordance with the expected performance level, or in case an employee is capable to work according to the standards and expected performance level than whether we should replace him or not? While there should have been understanding in the company for the management of the overhead. In the case of excessing overheads the company should make it sure that they are not affecting the overall performance of the company. Therefore the company should take the notice of all the spending of the company and then they should select the spending that can be decreased and reduced. The company should scale down all the unnecessary customer services offered by the company in the market.

References of Recommendation of Lettuce Production

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Breschini, S.J., and T.K. Hartz. 2002. "Presidedress Soil Nitrate Testing Reduces Nitrogen Fertilizer Use and Nitrate Leaching Hazard in Lettuce Production." HortScience 37 (7): 1061-1064. Accessed 11 30, 2018.

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Hernández, Adriana, Hugo Castillo, Dámaris Ojeda, Ana Arras, Julio López, and Esteban Sánchez. 2010. "EFFECT OF VERMICOMPOST AND COMPOST ON LETTUCE PRODUCTION." CHILEAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 70 (4): 583-589. Accessed 11 30, 2018.

Hernandez, Orlando L., Andrés Calderín, Rafael Huelva, Dariellys Martínez-Balmori, Fernando Guridi, Natália O. Aguiar, Fábio L. Olivares, and Luciano Pasqualoto Canellas. 2015. "Humic substances from vermicompost enhance urbanlettuce production." Agronomy for sustainable development 35 (1): 225-232. Accessed 11 30, 2018.

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