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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

NM

Jul 20, 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.

MP

Apr 3, 2017

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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By Muhammad F

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Aug 17, 2023

good coure

very usefull for every one

By Pranta D

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Sep 30, 2020

very easy and fluent course.liked it!

By Muhammad A B

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Jun 26, 2020

Thank you so much KAIST and prof kim.

By ryan a

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Jun 6, 2024

It is a great module and informative

By PRAKASH V T

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Dec 26, 2023

good content and useful to implement

By Frankline K

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May 25, 2023

very flexible learning experience...

By Saddi S

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Dec 1, 2017

EXCELLENT COURSE.THANK YOU VERY MUCH

By Chris D

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Nov 2, 2019

Great course to start off with SCM!

By Andreas

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Jun 13, 2017

Its very good lecture for beginner.

By Mohammed M H C

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Sep 6, 2016

Very useful for online learner.....

By Piyush S

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Dec 18, 2021

really really good! kamsahambnida!

By Patrizio M

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Sep 8, 2021

Graet course! Thank you very much.

By muhammad s k

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Dec 17, 2018

wonderful to learn.thanks coursera

By Mangesh K

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Sep 19, 2020

everyone should join this course.

By Samson E

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Jun 22, 2020

I enjoyed every bit of this class

By Pratik A

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Apr 13, 2020

Really helpful thanks a lot sir..

By Fred A

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Oct 2, 2022

Very useful and great Tutorials

By Luisa T F

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Jul 8, 2020

Very detailed and informational!

By Deleted A

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Feb 22, 2023

Thank you for your great course

By SUJIT K

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Aug 3, 2022

very instrumental and detailed!

By Busola K

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Aug 27, 2024

An amazing learning experience

By Hizba N

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Aug 27, 2022

Great, i got a whole knowledge

By Regis D

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Aug 17, 2022

Good Course to Supply Chain...

By SARAVANAN J

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Sep 2, 2020

excellent and very helpful us

By Aditya S

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Aug 6, 2019

Excellent Course for beginners