Thank you. What confuses me is the order is confirmed, accepted by ford with the below note. I've removed all the ID's and order detail but seems like it's been accepted.
From: Program Headquarters
Date: 2/23/2023 5:11:20 PM
Thank you for submitting the order within the Customer Order Verification Program. The order has been received and verified by Program Headquarters and will be scheduled for production with Ford Motor Co when possible. Below is your authorization number to be claimed at time of delivery. Thank you again for participating in the Customer Order Verification Program.
Order Verification Status: APPROVED
Each dealer is given a total allocation for the production year. Allocation is in part based on the dealer's sales history so a higher volume dealer will have larger allocation than a lower volume dealer. For example, if the production run is 10 months and the dealer has an allocation of 100, they will likely get 10 trucks built per month, typically 5 scheduled every other week.
A dealer may take / place as may orders as they wish. The reason for this is some orders might cancel, others may have items that are constraints that may cause it to not be picked up by the factory / scheduled.
The priority code is how Ford picks up orders from that dealer to schedule. Priority codes for orders that can be scheduled are going to be 10 up to 19. A lower number means a higher priority for that dealership (aka where you are in line). Orders with the same priority are generally picked up by date order placed (oldest goes first). Dealers can manually tell Ford which orders to schedule, bypassing auto scheduling based on priority code and date.
A priority code of 99 indicates an order that the dealer does not want scheduled. This made sense when people placed orders that wanted Job 2 options as you didn't want the order scheduled before those options could be added (since they can't be changed once a Vin is issued).
In my allocation example above, a dealer may not use all of their allocation if the orders they have include constraint items. This is why they will take more orders than their allocation.
One final note... the dealer allocation includes stock orders in addition to customer orders, so they might prioritize getting trucks for the lot (especially likely at those dealers that markup over msrp).
