F 150 Scheduling news!

[alexhartang]

Super disappointing that $80k trucks take 9 months to be built. Ford should stop taking orders, and stop building a single piece of dealer stock until all retail orders, and orders placed 4 months ago are complete.

 

[alexhartang]

I can imagine this is an attempt to course correct after pumping out as many units as possible before December 31st (the end of their fiscal year) which resulted in a huge shipping bottlenecks in addition to the compounding supply chain issues with the chip and other commodity shortages.

Do you think this month and a half break with scheduling is Fire playing “catch-up” and trying to get all these orders placed last fall back on track?

 

[RaptorWhoSaysNI]

Do you think this month and a half break with scheduling is Fire playing “catch-up” and trying to get all these orders placed last fall back on track?

Your guess is as good as mine. With Ford being a business that generates sales and profits primarily from manufacturing vehicles I can't see them just throttling production for no apparent reason to us. When companies in general produce excess inventory and that inventory is just sitting it increases their carrying costs for that excess inventory. A data driven management team will usually cut back production to let inventory levels drop to where they can resume production and keep inventory stable while attempting to match current demand. Lots of extraneous variables to consider in this equation no doubt.

 

[alexhartang]

Your guess is as good as mine. With Ford being a business that generates sales and profits primarily from manufacturing vehicles I can't see them just throttling production for no apparent reason to us. When companies in general produce excess inventory and that inventory is just sitting it increases their carrying costs for that excess inventory. A data driven management team will usually cut back production to let inventory levels drop to where they can resume production and keep inventory stable while attempting to match current demand. Lots of extraneous variables to consider in this equation no doubt.

Well said! I’ll keep my fingers crossed

 

[bzogster]

It’s just saying that NEXT WEEK they are scheduling trucks that they plan to produce on 3/21 week. It’s not saying that they won’t be scheduling anything again until 3/21. It’s nothing too crazy. On the week of 1/24 they were also scheduling trucks to be run on 3/21.

 

[DocMarshall]

It’s just saying that NEXT WEEK they are scheduling trucks that they plan to produce on 3/21 week. It’s not saying that they won’t be scheduling anything again until 3/21. It’s nothing too crazy. On the week of 1/24 they were also scheduling trucks to be run on 3/21.

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That is exactly correct.

 

[alexhartang]

That is exactly correct.

So on the schedule where it says job #1 orders due, what does that mean? My order is from October on allocation and I’m still unscheduled clean

 

[DocMarshall]

It means that if your dealer is getting an allocation, you are likely getting scheduled for Job #2.

 

[Tm2525ai]

Again, I ordered in October, have been consistently told that my region and dealer group will be scheduled in April!
Of course, that is dependint on chips and parts, which are currently in as bad a shape as ever. They are still not getting chips!

 

[TX-RAP70R]

It’s just saying that NEXT WEEK they are scheduling trucks that they plan to produce on 3/21 week. It’s not saying that they won’t be scheduling anything again until 3/21. It’s nothing too crazy. On the week of 1/24 they were also scheduling trucks to be run on 3/21.

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The pic i posted say’s “Job #2 Start Up Scheduling” Im assuming it says they are restarting scheduling in 3/21/21. The pic you posted, things could have changed as Ice-capades says “subject to change for scheduling” when he posts those schedules?