2024 MY Super Duty Order/Schedule/Build Thread

[Dust2Dust]

Welcome to the forum... The priority codes for retail orders are usually just a number and they would range from 3 to 19, and 99. Priority codes 1 and 2 would be set by the Ford Regional Rep, so not something your dealer would assign.

Is your order a retail order or a fleet order? The fleet orders are typically where you would see that priority code and I believe K4 indicates the 4th week of October for when this would need to be built.

Here's a bit on fleet orders from a guide that's a few years old (2015) so some of this may have changed.

Fleet orders are prioritized based on a two-digit alpha-numeric priority code which indicates the month and the week an order needs to be built. Numeric priority codes (including 99) are not valid Fleet priority codes. See the Fleet Priority Code Calendar link below for valid priority codes. Please be aware of the following:
First available priority codes are calculated weekly based on current order bank, available allocation, controlled commodities, and plant downtime. It is very important to review the Fleet DNB weekly as first available priority codes can sometimes change drastically if, for example, there is a large influx of orders received.
Fleet receives a pre-determined amount of allocation (production slots) each month for weekly scheduling. Once the amount of orders prioritized for that week/month exceeds the available allocation, the first available priority code is moved out to the next weeWmonth.
Orders are selected for scheduling based on priority code first, then by order receipt date. Despite how long an order has been in the unscheduled order bank, if the plant is not yet filling the production week associated with the requested priority code, the order will remain unscheduled.
As a general rule of thumb, production dates are at least one month out from order receipt date. Every effort is made to accurately estimate the lead times, and to reflect longer lead times of specific conmodities. In the absence of adjusted lead times for commodities, please use the high, medium, or low risk rating as a guide.

Wow thank you that was informative. Yes I submitted mine as part of my world fleet program. I was advised that it would help me get a build slot.

 

[DTX2023Tremor]

Wow thank you that was informative. Yes I submitted mine as part of my world fleet program. I was advised that it would help me get a build slot.

No worries... I don't recall seeing another fleet order on the forum in the past 18 months (doesn't mean there weren't any, just don't recall seeing anyone say their order was fleet instead of retail) so will be interesting to learn from your experience going that route.

Looks like what I posted is still pretty accurate. Here's something I found that's a lot more recent (MY22 fleet order info). I imagine not much has changed from MY22 to MY24

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Fleet orders are offered for fleet accounts with a valid Ford Fleet Identification Number (FIN) and not intended for retail customers. Fleet incentives vary depending on the fleet account type, location and other factors. Fleet accounts violating the terms of a fleet account agreement risk the consequences including suspension or cancellation of the fleet account.

Fleet Priority Codes reference the "Desired Production Week" with an M1 priority code translating to requested production the first week of December. You should contact your Dealer's Fleet Manager for the current order status. The average OTD (Order to Delivery) time for a 2022MY Super Duty is 28-30 weeks.

Every attempt is be made to honor requested Fleet priority code. Due to unforeseen circumstances such as plant downtime or commodity issues, this may not be possible. The information and estimated timing indicated below are correct at time of publication. Availability and timing are subject to change without notice. Acceptance of an order by Ford Motor Company does not constitute a commitment to build or a guaranteed delivery date.

• CURRENTLY SCHEDULING FOR January/February PRODUCTION
• SCHEDULING FOR March PRODUCTION BEGINS 01/13/22

Final Order Due Dates - 2022MY Super Duty

• 22MY F.O.D.D. U.S. Commercial Fleet/VSO – 8/13/2021
• 22MY F.O.D.D. State & Local and Federal Gov’t – 11/12/2021

Plant scheduling is optimized to meet Retail, Plan and Stock order demand within plant capacities, projected sales, etc. Ford Fleet receives allocation from Dearborn to meet demand for Commercial and State, Local & Federal Government agencies. Plant downtime, microchip shortages, commodity issues, etc. have impacted scheduling and production capacity for all order types, including fleet. Fleet orders for government accounts now require Purchase Orders and order documents to be submitted to the Ford Fleet department.

Fleet Scheduling Information

• Currently there has been risk to the production plans that is causing demand to be higher than supply. As risk occurs the scheduling volumes have to be adjusted which will cause delays in order to delivery timing (OTD). Please manage customer expectations as we move forward with the production and scheduling process.
• First available priority codes are calculated weekly based on current order bank, available allocation, commodities, and plant downtime. It is very important to review the Fleet DNB weekly as first available priority codes can sometimes change drastically if, for example, a large influx of orders is received.
• Fleet receives a pre-determined production slots each month for weekly scheduling. Once the amount of orders prioritized for that week/month exceeds the available allocation, the first available priority code is moved out to the next week/month.
• Orders are selected for scheduling based on priority code first, then by order receipt date. Despite how long an order has been in the unscheduled order bank, if the plant is not yet filling the production week associated with the requested priority code, the order will remain unscheduled.
• Every effort is made to accurately estimate the lead times, and to reflect longer lead times of specific commodities. In the absence of adjusted lead times for commodities, please use the high, medium, or low risk rating as a guide.

 

[Stainless03]

I'm new here as well, but lucky familiar with X-plan and priority codes. Order placed last Friday(9-22-23) for a 24 F250 Platinum Tremor with priority code 3. At first I wasn't confident in even seeing my order, but with that code it just might happen. Lets hope this UAW issue gets ironed out quickly.

 

[shermanator2]

What does "exhausted availability" actually mean? Tim Bartz does not list that term in his definitions at the beginning of the video. Does that mean that that option will not be scheduled for the rest of the model year, or not scheduled this week? Or does it mean that the orders in the order bank already will consume more of that option than they will build this model year? Or what really does it mean?

 

[LT75]

What does "exhausted availability" actually mean? Tim Bartz does not list that term in his definitions at the beginning of the video. Does that mean that that option will not be scheduled for the rest of the model year, or not scheduled this week? Or does it mean that the orders in the order bank already will consume more of that option than they will build this model year? Or what really does it mean?

Exhausted availability usually means all spoken for already or no more for other orders.

 

[ClaudeSS]

What does "exhausted availability" actually mean? Tim Bartz does not list that term in his definitions at the beginning of the video. Does that mean that that option will not be scheduled for the rest of the model year, or not scheduled this week? Or does it mean that the orders in the order bank already will consume more of that option than they will build this model year? Or what really does it mean?

Tim will actually be updating that sheet of definitions to include Limited and Exhausted.

But it means for the production weeks currently being scheduled. The parts/components are constantly being built and keep being delivered from suppliers or supplying plants.
When Ford doesn’t think they will have enough for the scheduled production week they list as exhausted. If there’s just some available it’s listed as Limited. They could very well have been used up the previous weeks. And things change week to week.

But the other thing to look at is the planned versus actual orders in the unscheduled order banks.
26,000 Super Duty’s currently in the unscheduled order bank.
Fort plans to build 4% KR, 5% Platinum, and 2% Limited. Total of 11% of all three. But 32% of the unscheduled orders are for those 3 trims. Three times as many as they planned and have the capability to build.

So the situation with those three highest trims are going to be permanently congested unless newer orders have a lower percentage of them.

Same issue with the high output diesel. Ford planned to build 10% of Super Duty with that engine. But right now, 57% of orders are for the HO diesel. So only 1 out of 6 can be built. So if you have a top 3 trim, plus a HO diesel, scheduling will be tough.

Good news for Tremor is that Ford is planning 10% tremor package and unscheduled order bank has 13%. So most tremors will be scheduled as long as not the higher trims.

 

[ClaudeSS]

Actually I got the KR, Platinum, Limited percentages wrong above. It’s worse.

22% of unscheduled orders are for KR
27% for Plat
11% for Linited.

Total of 60% in unscheduled order bank for three highest trims vs 11% planned.

1 in 6 chance of being scheduled currently. But those percentages seem skewed for early orders since most SD orders are planned and ordered for XL and XLr work trucks.

This info will be at almost exactly 19:00 in Tim’s new scheduling video when it’s released later today.

 

[ACreeker]

Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of folks with rollover orders to 2025.

Do the Tremors get built at a specific location? Only Kentucky or is it both Kentucky and Ohio? I know Kentucky is scheduling but sounds like Ohio hasn't yet scheduled 24’s. Wondering we’ll have a ramp up in orders being scheduled soon.

 

[DTX2023Tremor]

Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of folks with rollover orders to 2025.

Do the Tremors get built at a specific location? Only Kentucky or is it both Kentucky and Ohio? I know Kentucky is scheduling but sounds like Ohio hasn't yet scheduled 24’s. Wondering we’ll have a ramp up in orders being scheduled soon.

Only Kentucky

 

[shermanator2]

26,000 Super Duty’s currently in the unscheduled order bank.

22% of unscheduled orders are for KR
27% for Plat
11% for Linited.

26,000 in order bank does not seem like much. How many MY24 Super Dutys can they build?

Multiplying the above out means that there are only 5720 KRs, 7020 Platinums, and 2860 Limiteds on order. If they make only 143,000 trucks, then these will fit into the 4%, 5% , and 2% projections. Don't they make something like 200,000 trucks a year? If I use 200k, then they can make 8000 KRs, 10,000 Platinums, and 4000 limiteds. From that it looks like all of the current orders could be built for 2024 if they have enough engines.

Using the same math for the HO engines, there are 14,820 on order now. If they build 150k trucks that will be under 10%. If they are planning to build 200k trucks, then they are planning for 20k HO engines.

 

[Dzlbudman]

26,000 sounds real low. ESP since when the 2023 order bank opened the first week was 155,000 orders.......

 

[ClaudeSS]

I think 26,000 is a little less than about a month of production. But don’t know what the split between Kentucky and Ohio which builds the chassis cab.

Right now there looks to be a 6 month backlog of the 3 luxury trims if no more are ordered.
The question is whether people will continue to order the 3 luxury trims in those high percentages? Doubtful. But if the percentages keep up, they won’t be able to come close to building them all.

 

[Mootray]

I think I’ll plan for my lariat ultimate tremor late spring maybe later and if i get it sooner ill be happily surprised . Thats what dealer is telling me with order # 5000 and priority code 3.


Does anyond else think to them self is this the way the future of truck orders ? Or is this is just strange times with supply chain issues and maybe these years of trucks will be worth some thing in the future ?

 

[Jnelli]

I think I’ll plan for my lariat ultimate tremor late spring maybe later and if i get it sooner ill be happily surprised . Thats what dealer is telling me with order # 5000 and priority code 3.


Does anyond else think to them self is this the way the future of truck orders ? Or is this is just strange times with supply chain issues and maybe these years of trucks will be worth some thing in the future ?

I would assume so!!! I would like to think that there would not be a year wait for a new vehicle every year but that we are down to!

I would think a simple lariat tremor would not take 9 to 12 months to build but

 

[LT75]

I was originally told platinum’s would take forever to get built this year. So I put in an order for a regular 250 and a tremor 250 to see which I could get first. The regular platinum got picked up and is set to be built in 3 weeks. Kind of caught me off guard. I’ll just mod it my own way. Cancelled the tremor.

 

[marine_wi]

I was originally told platinum’s would take forever to get built this year. So I put in an order for a regular 250 and a tremor 250 to see which I could get first. The regular platinum got picked up and is set to be built in 3 weeks. Kind of caught me off guard. I’ll just mod it my own way. Cancelled the tremor.

My 250 Platinum Tremor is scheduled for 10/9! I'm super stoked about that. Plus we get the massaging seats back! Heck yeah

 

[Mootray]

I would assume so!!! I would like to think that there would not be a year wait for a new vehicle every year but that we are down to!

I would think a simple lariat tremor would not take 9 to 12 months to build but

Mine started off with code 10 but dealer sales rep got it bumped up to a 3 for me this week

 

[Arius1]

That's great, my dealer says 19 is the highest code . I'm just expecting sometime in spring for my build.

 

[Mootray]

That's great, my dealer says 19 is the highest code . I'm just expecting sometime in spring for my build.

Im sorry to hear that i wish everyone coould get them quickly

 

[FZ50]

That's great, my dealer says 19 is the highest code . I'm just expecting sometime in spring for my build.

I'm a 19 too. Looks like it should be worth the wait. Hope they get some of the bugs ironed out by then.