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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny Mo" data-source="post: 2259" data-attributes="member: 57">I posted this over on 6G:I think it makes sense - hopefully you all do as well.I'm not scheduled, 8/6/2020 Resv.Here's my take on what's happening with the schedule:1) Clearly there are several thousand Bronc on the mountain that need to be finished and delivered2) The introduction of Raptor builds have to be factored in to the line.3) There was an unannounced scheduling of Raptors last week for the same build weeks (May and June) of other trim levels being scheduled now (in the announced week)4) Dealer allocations seemed higher than the past for this runThe big question (formula) Ford is trying to answer right now is - how do we maximize delivery, while maintaining high production capacity and having net negative contribution to ice mountain (meaning lets finish/deliver more ice mountain vehicles than we add back coming off the line due to chip constraints)To me - this says that Ford is trying to sort out the ice mountain completions and then fill in as many Raptor (still early resv holders) builds as possible and then scheduling a 3 week block of all other Bronco builds into that same set of weeks - I think they will assess their formula and see if they did in fact move more vehicles off ice mountain than add back off the line and then adjust the next few weeks of scheduling based on replenished parts to fulfill the next build weeks.I'd expect another set of Raptors scheduled and then another BIG bunch of Broncos from first 2-3 weeks of reservations.Just my educated guess - as a process engineer - this is how I'd likely handle this (obviously there are way more unknowns than I have access to, but this seems reasonable in my head.)</blockquote>