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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Supply Chain Management: A Learning Perspective by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)

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About the Course

As a human being, we all consume products and/or services all the time. This morning you got up and ate your breakfast, e.g., eggs, milk, bread, fresh fruits, and the like. After the breakfast, you drove your car to work or school. At your office, you used your computer, perhaps equipped with 27” LCD monitor. During your break, you drank a cup of coffee and played with your iPhone. So on and so forth. You probably take it for granted that you can enjoy all of these products. But if you take a closer look at how each of these products can be made and eventually delivered to you, you will realize that each one of these is no short of miracle. For example, which fruit do you like? Consider fresh strawberries. In order for the strawberries to be on your breakfast table, there must be numerous functions, activities, transactions, and people involved in planting, cultivating, delivering, and consuming strawberries. Moreover, all of these functions, activities, transactions, and people are connected as an integral chain, through which physical products like strawberries themselves and virtual elements such as information and communication flow back and forth constantly. By grouping related functions or activities, we have a supply chain, comprised of four primary functions such as supplier, manufacturer, distributor, and finally consumer. A supply chain is essentially a value chain. For the society or economy as a whole, the goal is to maximize value, i.e., to create satisfactory value without spending too much. In order to create the maximum value for the strawberry supply chain, every participant in the chain must carry out its function efficiently. In addition, all of the members must coordinate with each other effectively in order to ensure value maximization. We have to face the same issues for almost all the products and services we take for granted in our everyday life, e.g., cars, hamburgers, haircuts, surgeries, movies, banks, restaurants, and you name it! In this course, we want to understand fundamental principles of value creation for the consumers or the market. We try to answer questions like how the product or service is made, how the value-creating activities or functions are coordinated, who should play what leadership roles in realizing all these, and so on. As our course title hints, we approach all of these issues from a learning perspective, which is dynamic in nature and emphasizes long-term capability building rather than short-term symptomatic problem solving....

Top reviews

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Apr 18, 2020

This course contains all important concepts to know in SCM.i hope this course makes a foundation to apply in your work . Thanks to Our Mr. Kim who taught us in a very simple way and very elaboratey.

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May 4, 2020

Definitely 5 - stars rating. You don't want to turn off your computer or watch Youtube videos anymore once you've entered this course. Definitely an excellent headstart in Supply Chain Management.

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By Horacio T P

Aug 8, 2017

Esta muy interesante el curso y con muchas herramientas muy buenas para conocer sobre la cadena de suministro y la nueva perspectiva de aprendizaje, recomiendo mucho tomar cursos en esta plataforma es muy sencillo y gratis :) excelente.

By Sanjeev K

May 4, 2023

Thanks!

Professor Bowon Kim, he is briefly introducing students to this course. It is about philosophical and moral foundation of a supply chain management.

Sanjeev Kamboj

Assistant Registrar, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

By Aakash G

May 29, 2020

An amazing approach to learning Supply Chain Management. Completely clarifies the misconceptions and myths regarding Supply chain ideology, methods and tools. Recommended to anyone who wishes to understand and make a career in SCM

By Julianne A

Jan 19, 2023

Thank you Professor Bowon Kim for a comprehensive and concise course with a unique perspective. I enjoyed each lecture and appreciate the knowledge and learning perspective you shared. I look forward to using these principals.

By Jordan B

Dec 17, 2022

Elegant, organized and philosophical course about Supply Chain Management and learning organizations. Lovely course - I hope Professor Bowon Kim and the KAIST faculty have the opportunity to make more lovely courses like this.

By Bekele K

Jun 16, 2022

Thank you for this opportunity. It was great that the PowerPoint presentations were put online, that way you can follow in class and not have to worry about frantically take down notes and worry about not getting everything.

By Shimani U A

Jul 5, 2020

This was definitely a very descriptive course and greatly supported me to enhance my knowledge. The instructor was also well prepared, very knowledgeable and supportive in completing this course. im very grateful

thank you.

By Abolaji A

Dec 18, 2017

This course was really helpful as it provided in-depth understanding and a unique perspective to supply chain management. In addition, the lecturer was quite articulate despite of the accent difference. Highly recommended!

By Elango N

Apr 1, 2022

Great learning value on Supply chain Management, Thanks a lot for the valuable support and giving me such a great opportunity to learn indepth knowledge on SCM and enhancing the value chain in the whole process of SCM.

By MD. R H

Aug 6, 2020

It was an amazing opportunity wherein we had a great chance to learn about SCM. I have learned a lot from this course and must be implement my learning throughout my professional period ..... thank you Prof. Bowon Kim.

By Van K N N

Jun 10, 2020

I did study a subject about SCM at my university, however, this course offers a totally fresh, down-to-root approach to SCM which provides me a learning perceptive for further learning. I sincerely highly appreciate!

By Redwan S

May 28, 2022

The content provided, the quality, the flexibility, the simplicity, the explanation, this course has it all. Sincerely, many thanks to Dr. Bowon Kim for his contributed effort to supply us with this amazing course.

By Abdur r P

Apr 23, 2022

To honest i love this course, within short period of time i had learn huge about supply chain management . thanks to professor Puwonkim for awesome lacture and thanks coursera and KUIST for arrange such a course.

By Muluken D

Mar 9, 2022

in my country payment for these type of educational program is not affordable. I really want to say thank you all of you who created these big opportunity for those who can't afford to get modern education.

By Betsy S

Sep 1, 2020

I really enjoyed the way this course was put together. The professor was really good at explaining everything and I was able to immediately apply what I learned to my current position as a Product Manager.

By David D

May 5, 2020

Definitely 5 - stars rating. You don't want to turn off your computer or watch Youtube videos anymore once you've entered this course. Definitely an excellent headstart in Supply Chain Management.

By TANMAY H R

Oct 19, 2020

I'm an Engineering student, But it was a great idea to learn this subject.

I'm sure this will help me indefinitely throughout my career.

Thank you Sir, You are an amazing teacher.

Wish you well.

By Monique F G d B

Mar 3, 2019

I have learned a lot about administrating time and other important aspects of logistics.

I can apply it also in personal life, and I am moving much smoothly in the city by myself.

Cheers! :)

By YU C C

Sep 19, 2022

Highly recommend the course. The tempo of lectures is just right for beginners. Prof. Kim explains concepts with vivid examples to help students better understand. Thank you, Prof. Kim!

By Joshua A

Mar 28, 2021

deeply insightful course on supply chain management.......this is a must take course for any professional seeking relevant expertise in the field of supply chain management......

By Ben B

Sep 20, 2022

A course with considerable depth into the topic. Prof Bowon Kim takes good time to explain every bit of his course, using his slides very actively and in a very useful way.

By THARCISSE N

Jul 19, 2022

Dear All,

I want to thank all whom sponsored me on this course,

i can't forget Professor Bowon Kim on his professional lectures from the beginning to the end.

Thank you again.

By Niranjan M

Jul 21, 2023

It was a great learning experience. Thanks to Professor Bowon Kim for giving us the valuable insights of Supply Chain Management in a very Macro and Micro level contents.

By Jesús D M B

Feb 2, 2018

El Curso y el Temario es una Introduccion con ejemplos para entender la cadena de suministro pero si tienes conocimiento de Logistica puede ayudarte a entender los temas.

By MOHAMMED F K

Sep 15, 2020

I'm very thankful to Professor Bowon Kim and coursera. i have learn supply chain management,management capability, quality management, global supply chain management.