2024 Maverick Scheduling This Week (8/8/24) for Production Weeks 9/2 - 9/23

[Newface]

Order Bank Open/Close
Retail 2024: Closing on 8/9
Stock 2024: Closing on 9/5
Stock 2025: Open

Notes:
• Production weeks: 9/2 - 9/23.
• Clean-Up Commit.
• Maverick SIMS orders were created this past weekend for XL, XLT and Lariat Versions. Please review Retail 2025: Open and amend orders, as necessary.

Required Orders:
- XLT + 2.0L EcoBoost + AWD + 17” Machined-face Carbonized Gray painted Aluminum Wheel (64V) with 235/65R17 Aggressive A/T Tire (T7F).
- Lariat + 2.0L EcoBoost + AWD. Update:
- Please consider that 25MY Maverick will be now an OTD-Fitness Vehicle Line.
- Lobo (W8P) version will be availbale for 25MY Maverick Key Dates:
- Final Order Due Date - 9/5.
- Spec Changes and cancellations will shut off on - 8/29.

Limited Availability:
- 993 - 2.5L Hybrid Engine.
- 50B - Bed Extender (Optional on All Series).
- 63B - Splash Guards, Molded, Front and Rear (4-piece) (Optional on all versions).

Exhausted Availability:
- FWD - 2 Wheel L/H Front Drive.
- XL Version (W8A, W8B)
- 59D - Black Appearance Package (Optional on XLT and Lariat Series).
- 96J - Bedliner – Modular Hard Drop-in (Optional on XL and XLT Series).
- 64T - 17” Carbonized Gray painted Aluminum Wheel (Standard on XLT).
- T7R - 225/65R17 A/S BSW Tires on XL/XLT Only (Standard).

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[Blue_Max]

Exhausted Availability:
- 64T - 17” Carbonized Gray painted Aluminum Wheel (Standard on XLT).
- T7R - 225/65R17 A/S BSW Tires on XL/XLT Only (Standard).

Is there any way to know if these will become available again prior to the end of the model year run?

 

[paneubert]

Do we know what " OTD-Fitness Vehicle Line" means? My Google Skills come up with lots of old Ford forum posts that essentially just re-state the same phrase.


"OTD orders are restricted to specific vehicle lines and part of the new vehicle scheduling process for Escape, Edge, Mustang, Mustang Mach-E, Bronco Sport, Lincoln Corsair & Lincoln Nautilus"

Great.....but what does that mean? @fordvideoguy , is this a phrase that you can decipher?

 

[Fcnrwy]

Online all i find is On Time Delivery.
Something about speeding the time between ordering and the delivering of said product...

Jerry

 

[Blue_Max]

Judging by the SIMS orders they're pushing the optional machined face 17" wheels which are $795 and come with the A/T tires if you want to sneak in as a 24MY. Or the FX4 package for $800. Either way hardly "thousands of dollars in option packages".

Do we know what " OTD-Fitness Vehicle Line" means? My Google Skills come up with lots of old Ford forum posts that essentially just re-state the same phrase.


"OTD orders are restricted to specific vehicle lines and part of the new vehicle scheduling process for Escape, Edge, Mustang, Mustang Mach-E, Bronco Sport, Lincoln Corsair & Lincoln Nautilus"

Great.....but what does that mean? @fordvideoguy , is this a phrase that you can decipher?

I found this explanation of OTD in a Bronco Sport forum, about a concept Ford wanted to try in the '90s:

Order to Delivery
Another key process Ford reengineering initiative was Order to Delivery. The purpose of the OTD project was to reduce to 15 days the time from a customer’s order to delivery of the finished product—a significant reduction from the present performance of 45 to 65 days. Ford took a holistic approach to the reengineering. Pilot studies in 1997 and 1998 identified bottlenecks throughout Ford’s supply chain, including its marketing, material planning, vehicle production, and transportation processes. Ford’s approach to implementing an improved OTD process relied on several elements: (1) ongoing forecasting of customer demand from dealers—before OTD Ford had never officially involved dealers in forecasting demand, (2) a minimum of 15 days of vehicles in each assembly plant’s order bank to increase manufacturing stability—gaps in the order bank are filled with “suggested” dealer orders based on historical buying patterns, (3) regional “mixing centers” that optimize schedules and deliveries of finished vehicles via rail transportation, and (4) a robust order amendment process to allow vehicles to be amended for minor color and trim variations without the need to submit new orders. The OTD vision was to create a lean, flexible, and predictable process that harmonized the efforts of all of Ford’s components to enable it to provide consumers with right product in the right place at the right time. Ford believed that success in achieving this vision would provide better quality, higher customer satisfaction, improved customer selection, better plant productivity, stability for its supply base, and lower dealer and company costs.

Aside from Escape and Edge, the vehicles listed seem like specialty vehicles, so maybe Ford pays more attention to the customer with those.

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