You’ve been Promoted

[Micheal]

So you’ve now been promoted to a Ford Scheduler. Here’s your dilemma.

There are two Mavericks in the build line. Tom ordered his in June, Bill ordered his in July. Both the same trim package, with minor different details. Tom’s has a moon roof and a SIBL, Bill has a moon roof but no SIBL. In the stock room there is only one moon roof and no SIBL available.

Do you give the moon roof to Tom, waiting for a SIBL to be available or do you give the moon roof to Bill and send his Maverick onward?

Multiply the difficulty by 100’s as to constraints, order date, trims, etc. What would you do?

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[LeersMav]

Billt

 

[TheGriffin1313]

sounds like first world problems

 

[Rob Cactus Gray]

There is no dilemma. The trucks that can be built get built. Parts can’t be stock piled waiting for other parts while no trucks are built. The factory would cease operation.

The issue I see is Fords allocation system. We see Joe Blows October Hybrid Lariat Lux get delivered. Meanwhile Dick Harry’s exact same build from July is stuck in “order processing.”

Now I need to talk about my salary

 

[Chris_G]

So you’ve now been promoted to a Ford Scheduler. Here’s your dilemma.

There are two Mavericks in the build line. Tom ordered his in June, Bill ordered his in July. Both the same trim package, with minor different details. Tom’s has a moon roof and a SIBL, Bill has a moon roof but no SIBL. In the stock room there is only one moon roof and no SIBL available.

Do you give the moon roof to Tom, waiting for a SIBL to be available or do you give the moon roof to Bill and send his Maverick onward?

Multiply the difficulty by 100’s as to constraints, order date, trims, etc. What would you do?

Is Tom or Bill offering a cash incentive?

 

[MakinDoForNow]

There is no dilemma. The trucks that can be built get built. Parts can’t be stock piled waiting for other parts while no trucks are built. The factory would cease operation.

The issue I see is Fords allocation system. We see Joe Blows October Hybrid Lariat Lux get delivered. Meanwhile Dick Harry’s exact same build from July is stuck in “order processing.”

Now I need to talk about my salary

I took the post from Ford earlier this week that the Mavs would be built in order date sequence depending on constraints and allocations would not enter into the scheduling process would be the way for the 22's. Do not think it said when it would actually start?

 

[rlhdweman]

Bill, unless Tom is willing to x the SIBL.

 

[Dawgonit]

I would just build mine then quit.

 

[paneubert]

I know this is a thought experiment that I am ruining with my logic here.....but I would let the automated system decide for 99% of the cases like this, with the system being told to produce the highest number of trucks based on parts availability.

I have no illusions that there are humans picking and choosing orders each week. I am sure the automated system spits out a report of a few dozen to a few hundred that need human intervention or final decision on due to oddities in the build, but the majority are automatically being scheduled by a computer running a bunch of nested IF/ELSE/OR/THEN statements combined with a real time inventory system. Run it until there are either no more chips to install, or not enough "time" on the production line.

 

[SoCalMav]

Billt

I'm so jealous - I haven't seen an actual FE Rapid Red yet. I hope to see you on the road so I can get a preview of what my order looks like.

 

[dalola]

For what it's worth, Ford has stated they are no longer following allocation for the Maverick, just confirmed order date (COVP), and constraints.

 

[Naranjita]

After they closed the order books for two months, all the rest of the orders should be done in date order, regardless of allocation.

Then you schedule the factory based on all the parts scheduled to be on hand every day, out as far as you have useful supply data. Every vehicle selected each day is the oldest order with all the parts on hand. Regardless of trim level of options.

You have 250 slots for Maverick for a day two months out. You grab the top of the list of the unscheduled Mavericks.

• #1 oldest on the unscheduled list, can it be built with the parts available that day...yes or no? If yes, it gets slot #1. If no, it stays at the top of the to be scheduled list.
• #2 oldest, can it be built with the parts available that day...yes or no? If yes, it gets the next available slot of the 250 that day. If no, it goes back to the date ordered to be schedule list
• #3, and so on and so forth.
• You keep going through the oldest ordered to be scheduled list until you eventually hit #250. Maybe you can get the first 250 oldest through that day. But you will probably run in to many constraints. Maybe you can only do 50 SIBL in a day? Maybe that day there, there were only 20 moonroofs available? Causing some, or many orders, to get bumped. They will be at the top of the next day orders when those constraints are available.

This system would break the log jam on the oldest orders. Every time some constrained items make it in the production queue, the oldest orders with those constraints will get scheduled first.

Eventually you get to the point where the delivery of certain constrained items out past the end of the plant model year, and those customers are contacted and offered the choice to remove the constrained item and get their schedule date immediately or they are sent to their dealer to fill out a MY 2023 order (earlier than August and next MY buyers).

 

[Epikal01]

Well, first and more logical, you do not include a constrained accessory in a major option package. (Luxury Package)
The spray in liner has been constrained since day one and yet dealers have no problem making the accessory available.
How hard could it be to find several alternatives for a spray on chemical liner.

 

[Micheal]

Is Tom or Bill offering a cash incentive?

If that works, where do I send the check?

 

[paneubert]

How hard could it be to find several alternatives for a spray on chemical liner.

I agree with you, but I think the constraint is less the supplies, and more the labor needed. Prepping and spraying each liner takes significant time. If it takes 30 minutes per truck, even running the spray booth 24/7, you still can only spray so many in a day.

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