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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 Sheila

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Mar 21, 2017

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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.

By LINGALA N S R

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Nov 18, 2020

good

By Sukham B

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May 31, 2020

It is too slow and there is unnecessary repetition. Further there is also an issue with the accent due to which you have to continuously keep moving between the subtitles and the screen.

Honestly not worth the excessive time of 10 weeks.

By Любомир И ( I

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Jul 2, 2017

really bad english , really bad presentation, great subjects but worst of worst presentation, i passed course because i need it, but speech is terrible

By MD M U H

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Jun 24, 2020

The lecture is so boring... And sound quality is so bad.

By Ankita W

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Jul 4, 2023

Poor