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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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Feb 7, 2021

It was truly an eye opener and a trailing course indeed. I am happy I studied this here and I'm most proud of KAIST all thanks and tombs up to our amiable instructor Professor Bowon Kim

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Oct 18, 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.

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By Saim N

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Feb 26, 2020

Thanks for providing good knowledge about SCM

By LIU F

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Mar 27, 2016

Pro. kim is the best in the coursera i think.

By Md R

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May 22, 2022

Excellent course, material and the teacher.

By 李予周1314

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Jun 18, 2018

真的非常喜欢KIM教授，讲的简单易懂。希望能有PPT可以日后复习！！Thanks,!!!

By Mohamed B

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May 28, 2024

splendid course and instructed is perfected

By Febri A

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Aug 2, 2022

this course help me to know more about SCM

By Durairaj V

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Mar 20, 2021

Excellent structure in imparting knowledge

By Neil R

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Jul 2, 2020

GOOD, COVERED ASPECTS I HAD NOT CONSIDERED

By Satwat A S

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Apr 5, 2022

I think its very good course for starter.

By craig s

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Aug 23, 2021

Excellent course material and resources.

By Alabi F I

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Jul 27, 2020

Educative and teachable. Nice experience!

By ASHWIN P R

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Apr 15, 2020

it is a good learing during this vacation

By Farhan M

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Apr 26, 2025

Excellent course with designed framework

By George P

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Dec 20, 2017

Very nicely presented course, thank you!

By shashanth r s

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Apr 26, 2017

I had a great time learning this course.

By Asma

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Apr 3, 2017

Really Helpful as a Learning Perspective

By victor c

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Oct 6, 2024

Excelente material, Muchísimas Gracias!

By Bir B

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Jul 31, 2021

Excellent explication and presentation.

By dhron c

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May 18, 2020

it was more informative than i expected

By Abhishek

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Apr 18, 2025

very well defined and good explanation

By Carlos A M d O G

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Jun 9, 2019

Amazing teacher and an amazing course.

By Hernan B

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Nov 6, 2017

EXCELENTE CURSO, MATERIAL Y DIDACTICA.

By SOFIANE S

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May 19, 2016

A great course, with a great teacher !