Flaw in Fords allocation system?

[mamboman777]

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[SayCheessee]

Allocation have it place when you have dealership pushing your products. Of course pimp will throw a little sugar to their crack dealers for a job well done.

But in a direct to order system, there's no need for a middle man, look at Tesla. Build the car and ship it out, that's why we're paying one of the highest destination fee ($1,500) in the industry.

 

[Bad Actor]

Ford stopped taking orders when they reached totals they thought they could build. This shows intent to build all of them. So what do allocations really have to do with anything @Ford Motor Company ?

 

[DJF]

I’m trying to figure out fords allocation logic, maybe someone can provide some more insight but I’m having a hard time figuring out how Fords current system will work out specifically for small allocation dealers

My dealer is a small mom and pop dealership and when I placed the order they showed me the list and there were probably a good 50-60 hybrid orders and 15-20 ecoboosts ahead of me. When I called my dealer a few weeks back to see how everything is going he said that he hasn’t seen a Mav come in for weeks. I’ve even heard of some dealers getting NO allocations for some months.

How are small dealers with way more orders proportionate to allocations supposed to fill all of their orders? I’m assuming the allocation amount can change from month to month but for each month that goes by just means less time to fill all the orders (ex if they are getting 5 per month and have 30 orders left by September they aren’t getting a 30 allocation month) Do large allocation dealers just suck up all the earlier allocations and then small dealers get backloaded for the end of the year?

I’m also assuming that larger allocation dealers will get a lot of their constrained builds built since they get more in general and will leave smaller dealers with more unfilled constrained orders because of this. Ex: if one dealer with 200 orders gets 20 per month and 8 constrained and one with 100 orders gets 5 per month with 2 constrained. (Bigger dealer gets a larger % built)

this also explains why there are a ton of instances where someone who ordered months after someone else gets their vehicle way before some people even get an order date.

I just don’t see a way they fill all of the orders with they way the current system is set up and it seems like most of the orders for large allocation dealers are frontloaded and smaller dealers will be backloaded, which means higher likelihood that get pushed to 2023 will be mostly if not all smaller allocation dealers?

Correct me if I’m wrong but is that not how the current system setup? Unless there’s something I’m missing

I'd say a major flaw for this customer is a dealership with 65-80 Maverick orders and apparently very few allocations. I'm stuck in the same boat, tiny dealership locally and I have yet to see one Maverick on the road anywhere.

 

[Loffredom]

Ford stopped taking orders when they reached totals they thought they could build. This shows intent to build all of them. So what do allocations really have to do with anything @Ford Motor Company ?

Because Ford has since stated that constrained items need to be removed from builds or risk not being built in 2023 which was after orders closed, so either they overshot it or there are still major supply chain issues they were not anticipating

 

[Mag Maverick]

You know I've heard allocations this allocations that Big dealers this and small dealers that etc etc etc but I don't remember reading or being told not a damn thing about the screwed up allocation system if this is true why in the hell didn't they( FORD ) tell the customer not to order from small dealerships that you would get screwed over big time if you did And if so why the hell even have an allocation system just do what the hell you want to do just like Ford is I'm sorry but facts are facts in this is exactly what is happening and has happened.

 

[Vols44]

@fordvideoguy explained the formula used to allocate Mavericks in episode 30 of his YT live stream. The delays in the body company and getting components are real and suck.

Can you imagine the Claycomo facility being idle this month because 26 suppliers cannot keep up with Ford's demand to produce an F-150 every 53 minutes? At least Mavericks are getting scheduled and built. Every empty driveway was envious of the load of 16 Mavs that arrived at Long McArthur yesterday. That makes around 30 in the last two weeks.

 

[Mag Maverick]

No I beg to differ he said about a Maverick getting built that should not have all the accessories or some of them missing to jump in front of someone that has an earlier order but he did not say anything at all about the same exact vehicle being built or getting a built date in front of others that have their ordered before them and it has happened a lot you can look and see the people that have the same exact order in but other people a month two months past their order date get the same damn truck built.

 

[fordvideoguy]

@fordvideoguy explained the formula used to allocate Mavericks in episode 30 of his YT live stream. The delays in the body company and getting components are real and suck.

Can you imagine the Claycomo facility being idle this month because 26 suppliers cannot keep up with Ford's demand to produce an F-150 every 53 minutes? At least Mavericks are getting scheduled and built. Every empty driveway was envious of the load of 16 Mavs that arrived at Long McArthur yesterday. That makes around 30 in the last two weeks.

Update to that we have received 41 this week alone.

 

[Vols44]

Update to that we have received 41 this week alone.

Wow, that is fantastic! I knew about the original 10+4 and the 16 yesterday. The trucks facing highway 81 must have their own row until the final destination transport vehicles leave for driveways and customer's dealerships. Long McArthur leads the way!

 

[Lone Star Proud]

I’m trying to figure out fords allocation logic, maybe someone can provide some more insight but I’m having a hard time figuring out how Fords current system will work out specifically for small allocation dealers

My dealer is a small mom and pop dealership and when I placed the order they showed me the list and there were probably a good 50-60 hybrid orders and 15-20 ecoboosts ahead of me. When I called my dealer a few weeks back to see how everything is going he said that he hasn’t seen a Mav come in for weeks. I’ve even heard of some dealers getting NO allocations for some months.

How are small dealers with way more orders proportionate to allocations supposed to fill all of their orders? I’m assuming the allocation amount can change from month to month but for each month that goes by just means less time to fill all the orders (ex if they are getting 5 per month and have 30 orders left by September they aren’t getting a 30 allocation month) Do large allocation dealers just suck up all the earlier allocations and then small dealers get backloaded for the end of the year?

I’m also assuming that larger allocation dealers will get a lot of their constrained builds built since they get more in general and will leave smaller dealers with more unfilled constrained orders because of this. Ex: if one dealer with 200 orders gets 20 per month and 8 constrained and one with 100 orders gets 5 per month with 2 constrained. (Bigger dealer gets a larger % built)

this also explains why there are a ton of instances where someone who ordered months after someone else gets their vehicle way before some people even get an order date.

I just don’t see a way they fill all of the orders with they way the current system is set up and it seems like most of the orders for large allocation dealers are frontloaded and smaller dealers will be backloaded, which means higher likelihood that get pushed to 2023 will be mostly if not all smaller allocation dealers?

Correct me if I’m wrong but is that not how the current system setup? Unless there’s something I’m missing

It would be easier to explain the meaning of life.

 

[TCK]

Fords allocation system, in simple terms. You can wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

 

[Jerry F]

I hate auto spell West Tn and just retired from East Tn Oak Ridge area.

I'm also fron east TN. I ordered my Maverick hybrid lariat from Ray varner Ford,06-25-21

 

[Mymaverick2021]

Don't forget to factor in the transportation/distribution problems. If shipped by train they will have to ship a full rail car to a location where they will have to be unloaded and parked until there are enough vehicles to fill a truck going to a general area (some areas will be avoided by some of the truckers) so the trucks will make as few a number of stops as necessary. It may be that in some cases it is not only the size of the dealer but the number of dealers within 10-20-? miles of each other! Many things are involved! Perhaps in order to fill a rail car they will select a Jan 2022 order to combine with June July august orders because that's what they need to ship to one location, (?????)!

My railcar has to make San Diego and then it's a boat ride right to Hilo Hawaii on the big Island Alto Blue XLT Hybrid Built 3/14/22 Shipped Yesterday 3/15/22 has a delivery date of 3/28/22 God willing and no Hurricanes

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