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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

AP

May 23, 2020

It was quite an exciting journey with this course. I learned a lot of basic knowledge of SCM through this. I think it must help me with my professional thinking.

MB

Jul 18, 2020

I am a novice Finance & Accounting professional working in one of the manufacturing industries in Bangladesh. This course has been a great one for me! Thanks to KAIST as well as Coursera!

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By Jennifer A A

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Jun 22, 2021

very educative

By Cristian C G C

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Aug 15, 2018

Amazing Course

By sazzad h s

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Jan 30, 2018

just go for it

By Yogesh j

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Nov 1, 2024

Greate Course

By Vuong D

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May 15, 2023

Great course!

By Youssef M

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Jul 14, 2020

good leraning

By Bing W

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Jul 4, 2019

Very good one

By MD. A H

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Feb 19, 2025

great knwrkw

By PARIONA V J L

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Feb 9, 2023

Super genial

By Shubham P

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May 2, 2020

Great Course

By Rohitkumar P

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Apr 1, 2019

Great course

By Mohamed B E M

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Dec 10, 2016

Great Course

By vaibhave s

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Mar 19, 2023

good course

By Bailynang S M

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Mar 17, 2023

just great!

By Oswaldo F

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Aug 15, 2022

Good course

By CHRISTIAN A H R

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Sep 2, 2024

It so good

By Jose A C S

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Aug 8, 2017

no comment

By Mitchell's H O

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Nov 22, 2023

Excelente

By Ashok K

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Sep 28, 2023

Very good

By Somasekhar R

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Aug 14, 2023

Excellent

By Irving O

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Feb 28, 2023

VERY GOOD

By Pham N H

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Nov 12, 2022

good info

By Ali Z

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Aug 2, 2022

Excellent

By DungNA9

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Nov 27, 2020

Very cool