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.
NM
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.
TR
I'm an Engineering student, But it was a great idea to learn this subject.I'm sure this will help me indefinitely throughout my career.Thank you Sir, You are an amazing teacher.Wish you well.
BB
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.
SS
I was really an honor to have certification under KAIST and professor Bowon Kim, it was really a great experience to have this certification under your guidance. Thank you.
TN
Dear All,I want to thank all whom sponsored me on this course,i can't forget Professor Bowon Kim on his professional lectures from the beginning to the end.Thank you again.
AA
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.
D
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.
GS
I would like to thank the respectful professor for making this course Wonderful.He made all the lectures in a crystal clear manner, which is very easy to understand.Thank You Sir.
DS
This course beautifully lays out major concepts involved in Supply Chain Management. It is great foundation course for a beginner who is interested in taking up this subject.
VM
Professor Kim is extraordinary.Used very simple methods to handle this management subject.I am thoroughly enjoyed this course as well as professor's way of teaching
JA
deeply insightful course on supply chain management.......this is a must take course for any professional seeking relevant expertise in the field of supply chain management......
MP
Thank you for giving me excellent information on supply chain management.It is very helpful course for me. Thank you Korea advanced institute of science and technology and coursera.
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Thanks to Professor Bowon Kim I was able to understand a lot of SCM concepts as its my first course about that topic and science. and now I know where to start and where I am going. thanks alot
I really enjoyed this course. This course really helped to gain theoretical knowledge about Supply Chain Management and the different factors involved in it. I liked the real-life practical examples of companies given by Professor Bowon Kim and he is absolutely awesome at teaching and explains things so well. I can tell he genuinely cared about making the material interesting to everyone. I would recommend this course to whoever wants to gain knowledge in the field of Supply chain management.
The course is very clear and the contents are value, I have clear understanding of many things about SCM after this course, many thanks and highly appreciated
This course serves as an eye opener for me on the listed area:
1. Value chain system
2. Management capabilities for decision making in an organisation.
3. New products innovations.
4. Supply chain strategies
5. The importance of effective supply chain management in any organization.
Thanks a lot for the great topics put together to bring the best from us all.
Really great learning course. I am a student and wanted to brush up my basics of SCM and also have a comprehensive aspect of Supply Chain like the Quality management, New Product development, Supply chain issues like Bullwhip effect, Global Supply chain. This is an unique course which touches upon all above mentioned aspects as well as different topics in supply chain but in a learning perspective which is generally not specifically focused in colleges or universities. You may might find some parts of lectures bit slow or boring but I think the professor's knowledge and the contents of course talk about the value in it. Thanks Professor Bowon Kim!
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.
Thank you for giving me excellent information on supply chain management.It is very helpful course for me. Thank you Korea advanced institute of science and technology and coursera.
I am a novice Finance & Accounting professional working in one of the manufacturing industries in Bangladesh. This course has been a great one for me! Thanks to KAIST as well as Coursera!
It was truly an eye opener and a trailing course indeed. I am happy I studied this here and I'm most proud of KAIST all thanks and tombs up to our amiable instructor Professor Bowon Kim
A very good experience. The subject covered is much more than supply chain management. A well-presented lecture. However the content looks dated, an update will be very helpful.
I was really an honor to have certification under KAIST and professor Bowon Kim, it was really a great experience to have this certification under your guidance. Thank you.
Professor Kim is extraordinary.
Used very simple methods to handle this management subject.
I am thoroughly enjoyed this course as well as professor's way of teaching
It was a successful course , very clearly and Useful!. I hope that KAIST develop news courses about supply chain management. Thank you very much for share knowledge!
I'm a fresh graduate with chemical engineering background. I found it to be very suitable for me, it helps me put together all the preceding knowledge into one supply chain management framework. The materials is still understandable while maintaining its capability to give quite amount of new knowledge & information. The only thing that probably can be improved is the audio quality. Sometimes, I needed some time to understand some words said by Professor Kim. But in the end, Professor Kim is an excellent teacher, love his explanation.
Real good lesson than give us a good learning of why supply chain have an important role in a company and without enter in the details we have a good understanding of the company challenges to stay sustainable in the time. If, like me, you strive after grow a company, this lesson is necessary to plan the structure, ethical & organization.
More Kim Bowon is a great teacher and the plan of these lessons (even the graph) are usefull to keep going the course. Thanks to him.
Tanguy LEVENT
I would like to appreciate Professor Dr. Kim for hosting the Supply Chain Management; A Learning Prospective course online ...Thank You. The SCM field is a very interesting and presently evolving across all verticals, the course has help me gained the required knowledge, I highly recommend this course to all who are seeking a career in SCM or in Logistics & Distribution Management.
Best Regards Vasihuddin Khan
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.
This is very helpful to all of us, especially students who need to enhance and develop their knowledge more. Thank you for this free course. I hope many students will know about this too!
I enjoyed studying the course. Information is given in a very understandable and proffesional way at the same time. I will highly recommend this course.
really bad english , really bad presentation, great subjects but worst of worst presentation, i passed course because i need it, but speech is terrible