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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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Feb 22, 2023

Thank you for your great course

By SUJIT K

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Aug 4, 2022

very instrumental and detailed!

By Busola K

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Aug 27, 2024

An amazing learning experience

By Hizba N

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Aug 27, 2022

Great, i got a whole knowledge

By Regis D

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Aug 17, 2022

Good Course to Supply Chain...

By SARAVANAN J

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Sep 2, 2020

excellent and very helpful us

By Aditya S

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Aug 6, 2019

Excellent Course for beginners

By Mohamed S

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Nov 24, 2023

very useful thank you so much

By Mozzammil H P

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Feb 19, 2021

Easy to learn and enjoyed it.

By Faisal J

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Apr 25, 2020

Excellent Learning Experience

By Vijay k

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Feb 1, 2020

Very good source for learning

By Syed A A S

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Aug 1, 2020

this course is well designed

By Salfo D T

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May 11, 2017

I 'M SO HAPPY FO THIS COURSE

By Kai M

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Jan 2, 2024

great learning experience

By Mangena D N R

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Sep 28, 2021

Very much use full course

By Arpan K S

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May 2, 2020

instructor was very good!

By SHIVANI B M

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Apr 28, 2020

excellent course contents

By K.V.S.Krishnamohan

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Jan 28, 2018

Really effective teaching

By Samuel

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Jun 20, 2016

Best Supply chain course.

By Arnold C

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Jan 9, 2023

COURSERA IS THE BEST!!!!

By Mohd R b M A

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Aug 24, 2020

saranghae Prof Kim Bowon

By Renu K S

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May 29, 2020

Nice course..very useful

By Lộc N

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Aug 20, 2024

Very helpful for newbie

By Emmanuel O

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Feb 4, 2023

Extremely illuminating.

By Muthoni K

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Sep 24, 2020

An enlightening course.