I'm actually tracking two orders, as we made the initial order in "Night Moves" color, but changed our mind the next day to Octane Red. Our dealer said no problem, as the 1st one could be cancelled since it was so new. But ... for whatever reason ... it didn't cancel and they now have two being built. Both of these, plus yours, all going to D1 on the same day tells me they do the scheduling in blocks.
I know mine went into D status fairly quickly after order confirmation stage. I also have a family member who works for Stellantis, and at the end of July he told me it was sequenced for build during the 2nd half of Aug. So it seems like they sequence orders into blocks (D status) and assign a window for when it will be built. Then when that window gets closer, they then schedule the individual orders in that block to a specific build date.
I'm not sure how I can find out the specific build date though. I do know the order gets updated with an estimated ship date when it enters D1, so I'll get that from my dealer. It should be good to estimate the build date to be 5 or so days prior to the estimated ship date I'd think?
The screen shot is from a Jeep order tracking website. It's all Stellantis, so I wondered if the Dodge order number would work and it does. Jeep and Dodge must use the same API for order status info...
Track your custom order and get alerted as it moves from one stage to the next.
waitingforjeep.com