Currently, there is an alert when a client orders too much than is in inventory at the top of the product page saying "Unfortunately there is not enough inventory of [PRODUCT NAME]'s to fulfill your request."
There is no alert if there is no inventory, but back order enabled
The scenario then becomes: the client may not look at the "projected ship date" and wonders where their product is when we need to produce
A solution to this would to have an alert that says something like-
"There is not enough inventory of [PRODUCT NAME]'s. We will fulfill this request once inventory has been replenished. Estimated ship date for this product is [ESTIMATED SHIP DATE CAPTURED FROM PRODUCT]."