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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 19, 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 5, 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 Bibigona B

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Jan 5, 2018

Thank you very much professor! I had a pleasure to listen your lactures! They were updated, interesting, and very useful for me.

By Abdul W K

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Feb 21, 2019

Thank you so much Professor Bowon Kim for giving us your precious time and knowledge. I learnt a lot of things in this course.

By Nehal J M

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Jul 5, 2020

very informative sessions.

Mr. Bown Kim has explained each and every topics in details.

Very nice presentation.

Enjoyed learning.

By Dhanya J S

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May 20, 2020

Obtained a deeper insight into the practical illustration of Supply Chain aspects includiing Capability, Flexibility and NPD.

By Fulfilled O

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Aug 15, 2022

Very insightful course i must say. its a great learning oppurtunity, worth the wole stress. im grateful for this oppurtunity!

By Santiago M

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Feb 27, 2020

Muy buen curso. Me gusto la forma de enseñar del profesor. Muchos conceptos, muchas ideas claramente explicadas. Excelente

By Julio S

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May 26, 2019

Es un enfoque muy bueno, la teoría muy bien sustentada, es un visión muy completa de la cadena de valor, muy recomendable

By Atıl S

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Nov 26, 2024

Quite insightful for me, took this as a search for inspiration on whether to pursue SCM as a master and I think I might.

By Atharva R

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Jul 3, 2020

It was a great experience. Bowan Sir explained the subject very well. I am expecting more courses taught by Bowan Sir.

By Ramesh C P

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Nov 3, 2017

Very nicely designed course and ably instructed by Prof. Kim. Gives a holistic approach to learning SCM as subject.

By surendran a

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Aug 31, 2023

It was a great experience and the way of teaching was very good. Overall it's nice and helpful course... Thank you

By SAKALA S

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Dec 7, 2022

The course is very well organized for learning, understanding the concepts and clearly explained with examples.

By Simon D

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Feb 8, 2020

Thoroughly goes over a horizontal view of Supply Chain management, encompassing all elements needed to look at.

By Sh a b b i r P a r d a w a l a

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Sep 27, 2022

Really Thanks to Professor Mr.  Puwonkim,

They explained very well and I learned alot about the SCM.

Thanks

By :Nushrat A H T

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Jul 3, 2020

This course was very useful. It helped me to get a clear concept over supply chain management. Thanks a lot.

By Vikram B G

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Jun 6, 2020

Thanks Professor Mr.Bowon Kim and KAIST Business School for the wonderful course on Supply chain Management.

By Mogome B

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Feb 16, 2021

course content was very easy to comprehend with practical examples rom the industry.I urge people to try it

By César E O G

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May 19, 2017

This course is really good, amazing explanations, but sometimes there are problems with the audio. 5 stars!

By Novia W

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Aug 15, 2020

I'm so happy to learning this course. This course give me a lot of insight. I want to say Thank You a lot.

By Irewole A

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Apr 30, 2020

It was an absolutely revealing and mind blowing course. So detailed and very easy to comprehend. I’m glad

By Jared L

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Apr 27, 2020

Great Course! I'm a complete beginner but the lecturer has made very comprehensible. Highly recommend it!

By Amadou M C

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Aug 11, 2016

So comprehensive and detailed. This course allowed me to review several classes from my MBA in one place!

By Mohmad I

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May 31, 2020

nice one online mode to learn in a better way. i wan to say thanks to Coursera for wonderful experience.

By Chiranjit S

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Jan 6, 2022

I completed Supply Chain MANAGEMENT: A Learning Perspective. I need certificate. Can i achieve it free.

By matthieu l

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Mar 28, 2017

Great Lecturer!! Clear and extensive this course give you a great insight into Supply Chain Management.