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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 Niranjan M

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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

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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

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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.

By BISMAYA R B

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Jul 28, 2020

A good elaborative course on supply chain management. Thank you Professor kim for your valuable inputs in terms of examples which makes the course more enthusiastic.

By Kasuntha M

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Dec 13, 2020

Great course to obtain the holistic idea of Supply Chain Management. I highly recommend this course and thank you all for the immense support throughout the course.

By Fermín M A

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Sep 20, 2017

It is a really good course to improve your skills in Suply Chain Management. I have learnt a lot and I have improved my knowledge in this area. Thank you very much.

By Avinash J

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Jul 31, 2022

I have learned many aspects of Supply chain management. My first and SCM related course and happy that I have completed it with more betterr understanding of SCM.

By Farook m

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May 10, 2022

Exellent tutor and a wealth of information.Thanks to all stakeholders especially Coursera for this amazing platform and KAIST for the course material.Be blessed.

By Auve R P

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May 24, 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.

By Susanna M

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Jul 1, 2020

More theoretical than practical and at the end of the day that's the perfect match for those who are just starting to approach the subject. Highly recommended!

By Khin N N

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Sep 25, 2022

The course is abit different from usual supply chain management course in a good way. It cover and connect alot of issuse that go into SCM decision making.

By Imthiyas A

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Jul 23, 2020

Best Course to learn and to enhance your supply chain management skills. Had a good learning with the Professor Kim Bowon From KAIST. Thank you Coursera....

By Aleksandar

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Oct 14, 2016

During last time I've learned a lot of about Supply Chain Managemet. I'm sure it will help me in the future! All The Best for excellent professor Bowon Kim!

By Marlene H

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Apr 11, 2021

Learning material is clear and easily understand. I would recommend this course to anyone. The questions are direct base on the videos and courses thought.

By Nguyễn T Đ N

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Aug 1, 2020

I've learned a lot from this course, you not only gain SCM knowledge, there're more for you to explore. Special thanks to Coursera and Professor Bowon Kim.

By Gunel I

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Feb 7, 2021

Thanks a lot Professor Kim, the explanation method was great which helped me to gain understanding, will try to implement the theory to practical areas.

By Pratim M B

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Apr 14, 2020

This is one of my favourite courses on Coursera. I was so engrossed in the course and in the lectures that I finished a 10 week course in a single week!

By shubham r

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Feb 14, 2021

Wonderful course ☺️ I learnt a lot from this course.and it's very helpful for carrier.. I highly recommend this to everyone.. thank you team Coursera☺️

By Sajjad S

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Oct 15, 2021

It's a really good course, I had taken related courses before and worked in SCM, but yet this course had a lot of new information and concepts for me.

By Kevin H L S

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Sep 26, 2020

Thanks to Bowon Kim professor for sharing his deep knowledge in SCM, this was the best online course I have ever took. I really enjoyed every lecture.

By Rahul R S

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Feb 28, 2022

This course was really helpful in understanding the basic concepts and detailed one as well. Thank you Professor Kim for such a wonderful sessions.

By MD. F K

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Sep 23, 2020

In this course I have learned a lot about SCM and I am really thankful to the Professor Bowon Kim for outlining such a nice and informative course.

By Thejesh k

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Mar 4, 2020

thanks for making us to learn this course.

The course is very interesting and lecturers have good skills to make students get

better understanding.

By renata z

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Apr 23, 2022

This course is deeply theoric, but it really opens up the eyes on the importance of learning to make the right decision in Supply Chain Management

By Artan R

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Jun 19, 2016

Very well prepared and organized course. As the title suggest, it offer an insightful learning perspective. ideal to anyone interested on SCM.