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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

AA

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 Joud A

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Nov 23, 2021

good

By Mazedin R

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Jun 25, 2021

great

By Rayhanul H R

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Jul 3, 2020

Great

By Abdullah A F 1

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Dec 26, 2021

good

By ganesh

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Oct 22, 2016

It is a very good course where students get to learn about supply chain management. People who are looking for deeper knowledge about SCM can opt this course. My only suggestion to this course is that they need to improve the quality of the video(not the content) and increase the difficulty level of the exams.

By David S

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Jul 25, 2017

At first, this was interesting. However, I already have some background knowledge on SCM and started to find the lectures uninteresting. So I went ahead and completed the last 4 quizzes; I easily passed each one on the first try. I was hoping I would learn more from this.

By Jonathan G

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Jan 25, 2018

Good course, A lot of what was being taught is self-explanatory. A lot of the modules were redundant. You don't need 10 weeks to explain something that can take a much shorter period of time.

By Saleh M A

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Nov 6, 2020

Good course materials and easygoing quizzes. But, the instructor's pronunciation was too much annoying. Also, slides were contained too much handwritten topics which was too disturbing.

By Valdric L

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Aug 25, 2016

Lecturer is downright boring and not engaging.

Could had used more real-world companies as examples for teaching, including pictures, but it's the same bland slides again and again.

By Michelle P T H

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Jul 23, 2017

The course material could be leaner and more focused. At times I lost myself in between the lectures as the material was too confusing.

By Michael S

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May 14, 2022

Would be 5 stars, but the professor was a litlte hard to understand at times; otherwise he did an excellent job.

By Eveline R

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Sep 17, 2024

I find it highly frustrating that I am not able to pull a certificate when this was offered as a free course?

By Rahul S M

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Apr 18, 2020

Good course for beginners in the area of OSCM. Thanks Prof. Bowon Kim (Instructor) for designing the course.

By Robel G

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Apr 19, 2022

I found the course to be somewhat interesting. It gives basic perspective to the supply chain enivironment.

By Breno J

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Jan 26, 2020

Conceitos muito simples e leves. POderiam ser mais aprofundados com leituras e exercìcios menos teóricos.

By Hyeong-bae K

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Nov 7, 2016

it is good lecture to learn SCM in other concepts

By belal m s

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Oct 5, 2024

استفدت الكثير من المعلومات

By SHELAR M

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Sep 7, 2021

BASIC AND LEARNING COURSE

By Rajesh R

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Jun 29, 2024

GOOD

By Sheila

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Mar 21, 2017

T

By Jose F

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Jun 4, 2016

Slow, never to the point, repetitive, presentation and communication outdated. This class is a text high schooler student's nightmare almost to the point to be an homage to the boring economic class at the beginning of " Ferris Bueller's Day Off "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA

By Enrique C

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Aug 27, 2024

So-so course, with a lot of hours to just explain some basics. Not worth unless you are a total newbie on this, and even so, probably you can grab the insights in 1/10 of the allocated time.

By Rebecca H

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Sep 1, 2016

Difficult to understand the professor, and slides were hard to read

By Patrick E

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Aug 22, 2016

Not as detailed or practical as I hoped for.

By LOVEENA S C

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Jun 4, 2020

I did not get course certificate.