Multiplant manufacturing strategies among the fortune 500
研究了美国最大制造企业中的四种多工厂策略，基于300多家工厂的数据，分析不同行业对这些策略的偏好及工厂特征，帮助企业分配工厂任务。
Abstract This paper identifies and examines four distinct multiplant strategies prevailing within the nation's largest manufacturing companies. These multiplant strategies govern the charters under which plants operate, thus helping to insure focused factory operations. Using detailed data drawn from over 300 plants, the paper reports on the apparent attractiveness of different strategies to different industry groups and singles out those specific plant characteristics which Fortune 500 plants attribute most often to each strategy. This information can aid in the assignment of plant charters, within company operating divisions.