Maverick Scheduling?

[piwtrnr]

For the past weeks since ordering has started for the 2025 Maverick there has been no scheduling yet someone posted they had a schedule and a vin number, how can that be?

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[Marauder]

For the past weeks since ordering has started for the 2025 Maverick there has been no scheduling yet someone posted they had a schedule and a vin number, how can that be?

They did some scheduling the week of September 27th for builds in November. I think I heard the next scheduling is going to be October 17th which might be for December and January builds, basically the rest of Build 1. Then sometime around mid November Build 2 starts scheduling probably for February build dates.

 

[commadorebob]

My educated guess: this is the beginning of a new model year and it includes a refresh of the design. The first batch of trucks scheduled were likely pre-determined builds by Ford in order to do QA on the new processes. If those trucks needed for that QA work just so happened to match customer orders, then great. But overall, this first scheduling run wasn't aimed at fulfilling orders.

I would imagine future scheduling periods to be more customer focused. Given there are a limited number of orders, it shouldn't take Ford too long to eat them up with the exception of the Lobo that won't start until 2025.

 

[Blue_Max]

My educated guess: this is the beginning of a new model year and it includes a refresh of the design. The first batch of trucks scheduled were likely pre-determined builds by Ford in order to do QA on the new processes. If those trucks needed for that QA work just so happened to match customer orders, then great. But overall, this first scheduling run wasn't aimed at fulfilling orders.

I would imagine future scheduling periods to be more customer focused. Given there are a limited number of orders, it shouldn't take Ford too long to eat them up with the exception of the Lobo that won't start until 2025.

Except "exhausted availability" means things aren't available, not that they aren't planned, doesn't it?

 

[Gray Goose]

Except "exhausted availability" means things aren't available, not that they aren't planned, doesn't it?

Given that this is the 4th straight year of the recurring exhausted availability, I suspect Ford has their entire build schedule for 2025 already planned. If a customer order happens to match the plan it get's scheduled. Otherwise it waits until product gets to that configuration. So exhausted availability means it's not in the immediate production plan. My prediction is that some of those 6,000 2025 orders are still going to be waiting many months into 2025.

 

[commadorebob]

Except "exhausted availability" means things aren't available, not that they aren't planned, doesn't it?

Exhausted availability means no more of that item will be selected for scheduling this week. If Ford had ten items and already had ten trucks planned to be built with those items, then those items are now exhausted. Any order now being looked at to fill out the production run will not have those items.

The next scheduling wave might have everything available or be listed as "limited availability."

"Balanced Out" means there are no more of that option for the rest of the model year. You probably won't see that until the summer and I would surmise the Lobo would see it first.

 

[Packer Bill]

If Ford had ten items and already had ten trucks planned to be built with those items, then those items are now exhausted. Any order now being looked at to fill out the production run will not have those items.

This is the best explanation of exhausted availability that I have read. Thank you!

 

[Blue_Max]

My prediction is that some of those 6,000 2025 orders are still going to be waiting many months into 2025.

Is there some business logic behind planning such a long production lag?

 

[Gray Goose]

Is there some business logic behind planning such a long production lag?

It's been a long time since I worked in supply chain but the logic usually comes down to profit optimization. Typically vendors like large orders. Best volume discounts are ordering several months supply at once. Deliveries are timed to get best discounts on shipping. Rail and water are lowest cost shipping and also the slowest. Having a warehouse full of parts is expensive, so batching the same configuration vehicles together for long production runs, helps cut cost. Fine tuning the supply chain for lowest cost results in the long production lag.
More information: https://www.order.co/blog/procurement/supply-chain-optimization/

 

[Blue_Max]

It's been a long time since I worked in supply chain but the logic usually comes down to profit optimization. Typically vendors like large orders. Best volume discounts are ordering several months supply at once. Deliveries are timed to get best discounts on shipping. Rail and water are lowest cost shipping and also the slowest. Having a warehouse full of parts is expensive, so batching the same configuration vehicles together for long production runs, helps cut cost. Fine tuning the supply chain for lowest cost results in the long production lag.
More information: https://www.order.co/blog/procurement/supply-chain-optimization/

Seems like 6000 orders would be substantial enough.

 

[Packer Bill]

Seems like 6000 orders would be substantial enough.

We know that at least 4900 MY25 Mavericks have been scheduled for the month of November (see MY25 VIN tracker thread).

 

[MvrkECWI]

The rest of Job 1 production (7 weeks) schedules with October's allocations. Should be a big week coming up. Watched Tim's scheduling notes; always great info.

 

[AlpineKid74]

They did some scheduling the week of September 27th for builds in November. I think I heard the next scheduling is going to be October 17th which might be for December and January builds, basically the rest of Build 1. Then sometime around mid November Build 2 starts scheduling probably for February build dates.

Long McArthur Ford out of Salina, Kansas does a YouTube about different Maverick issues. One video was about scheduling, .

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