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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 Alfonso I M H

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May 10, 2020

Great course! Very interesting with very good explanaitions and examples.

By Muhammad f P

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Aug 25, 2020

the content is very good, and give many new knowledge about supply chain

By DINESH K S

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Apr 22, 2020

It was greate learning about SCM, It is benifit for me and my jab career

By Fabrizio M

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Apr 19, 2020

Very well explained, it was a pleasure to learn from Professo Bowon Kim

By John G C

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Mar 9, 2018

it's the best Course i Every attended and find many experiences from it

By Basia F

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Dec 18, 2016

A great overview of Supply Chain Management with interesting examples.

By Funsho L

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Aug 25, 2024

Awesome insights were garnered. The lecture delivery was world-class.

By M. M

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Jul 20, 2023

extremely good course. LOved it. The Professor was magical. Thank you

By Alneida R

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Apr 2, 2021

Learnt alot of things. Did not realise that it is such a huge topic.

By loyick j w

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Aug 24, 2020

best online course i have learnt a lot about supply chain management

By Ariel C P

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Jun 18, 2016

Muy completo y el profesor explica bastante bien! 100% recomendado.

By Gagan S

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Jan 31, 2022

Very nicely explained all concepts & covered all areas extensively

By subodh g

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Mar 12, 2020

Good insight into the topic in a simplified and sequential manner.

By Cosmos I K

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Nov 7, 2022

Very informative and gives in-depth knowledge on SCM operations.

By Algorithm Y

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Dec 28, 2020

Very good explaination and easy to folllow. Thank you very much.

By Haritha t

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Nov 8, 2020

it had given a wide knowledge about the supply chain perspective

By Tawfiq B A

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May 22, 2020

good course with detailed and simplified explanations and graphs

By Md. T A T

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Jun 29, 2020

Amazing teacher, wish I could meet him in person and thank him.

By nzenwa r

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Jun 8, 2017

The professor uses practical examples to enable you understand.

By JADAB K P

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Aug 27, 2024

Excellent course. It may improve the capability of any person.

By GOKUL R P

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Jul 27, 2020

This course is very usefull for all business studying students

By Thanh T D

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Jul 1, 2020

Good and difference approach to understand and learn about SCM

By SATYANARAYANA R M

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Jun 25, 2020

The first week lesson was very well said. Kudos to the tutor.

By Mukil V N

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Jun 10, 2020

A good series of lectures delivered by an excellent teacher.

By Sonu K

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Apr 24, 2020

Good Course - Nicely explained with simple and good examples