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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 Viren P

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Jun 15, 2020

The professor is absolutely fantastic and makes learning the complex terminologies easy to understand.

By Erick c

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Nov 8, 2020

Outstanding teacher i really enjoy the course specially the importance given to moral and principles

By Adrián M

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Nov 17, 2022

Muy bien explicado y con ejemplos que ayudan a entender con mayor profundidad los temas impartidos

By RJ P

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Feb 27, 2024

Professor Kim Bown and Coursera. Thank you for giving me chance on learning new skill. God bless.

By Kellen W

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Dec 23, 2022

It's been an eye opening course. Learnt about suppply chain, inventory and management.

Asanti sana

By Alexander L

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Nov 16, 2020

I take so much time to finished this course, it's very useful and interesting. highly suggest!!!

By Iman

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Nov 18, 2019

it is really useful and i have learnt a lots of things. highly recommended specially for student

By Ajith K

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May 31, 2022

Supply chain management course was excellent support for the beginers as well as professionals

By Cyrus N

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Feb 18, 2025

Insightful and Succinct. Provides good understanding to the world of supply chain management.

By Seongchool Y

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Feb 17, 2020

A truly great course to get the fundamental knowledge! Great thanks to the Professor Mr. Kim!

By Ahmed E

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Oct 1, 2019

Great introduction to Supply chain management. Great lectures, easy to follow and understand.

By Abhijeet N

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Nov 8, 2016

This course was well designed, I got fair understanding of basics of supply chain management.

By David I

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May 23, 2016

Very useful overview course. Goes into good explanations on difficult to understand concepts.

By Dheimet L G

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Nov 19, 2020

Thanks to Professor BOWON KIM for his inservice dedication during this course. See you soon

By Lindiwe M

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Jun 13, 2025

The course was very informative i would like to know how doew one do to get a certificate

By Johnny V r

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May 24, 2022

good tutorials with topics that I did not know and thanks to you I was able to learn them

By Shihab I A

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Aug 10, 2018

Great course! Everything is explained from the basics and very detailed,

Would recommend!

By Cristina A

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Jul 9, 2017

Muy recomendado y completo, ver la cadena de suministro desde una perfectiva de análisis.

By Saurabh K K

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Aug 13, 2016

Professor is very good at explaining ideas and has very deep understanding of the course

By Sumit G

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Jul 7, 2020

Wonderful learning experience .Thanks to professor Bowon Kim for sharing his knowledge.

By Nitu S

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Mar 13, 2022

Course is very well designed and explaiend...had enjoyable learning experience..Thanks

By CHAUDARY M Z

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Jul 3, 2020

That was wonderful time with highly capable teacher. Thanks for affectionate lectures.

By Soham D

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Jun 30, 2020

A very easy and descriptive way to learn Supply Chain Management. Thank you Professor.

By Hasib A S

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May 30, 2020

It can not more better. It covered all the elements of basic learning for supply chain

By ARJUN B

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Apr 19, 2018

In-depth and nicely paced. Provides a good overview of SCM. Recommended for beginners.