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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 SHIVANI B M

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Apr 28, 2020

excellent course contents

By K.V.S.Krishnamohan

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Jan 28, 2018

Really effective teaching

By Samuel

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Jun 20, 2016

Best Supply chain course.

By Arnold C

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Jan 9, 2023

COURSERA IS THE BEST!!!!

By Mohd R b M A

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Aug 24, 2020

saranghae Prof Kim Bowon

By Renu K S

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May 28, 2020

Nice course..very useful

By Gulraiz s

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Nov 28, 2024

i complete this cources

By Lộc N

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Aug 19, 2024

Very helpful for newbie

By Emmanuel O

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Feb 4, 2023

Extremely illuminating.

By Muthoni K

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Sep 24, 2020

An enlightening course.

By Phan C T B

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Apr 30, 2016

This course is so great

By ANA P M S

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Feb 15, 2021

Muito bo,m esse curso.

By Kiran K S

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Jul 15, 2023

Very Very Good Course

By Umar B

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May 11, 2022

Great overview of SCM

By Kamil A

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Apr 24, 2021

It was amazing course

By Gabriel C

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Sep 17, 2024

Muy educativo, ameno

By Ravikumar K

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May 30, 2024

Excellent Teachings

By Deleted A

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Apr 20, 2020

Very great learning

By Anurag S

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Jun 9, 2016

Very Good Professor

By Akash A

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Feb 24, 2025

A Great Experience

By Javier a

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Dec 7, 2024

Curso muy completo

By Phuc L

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Apr 8, 2020

Very comprehensive

By Ramunė M

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Jan 30, 2022

Super!

Thank You!

By Bhavna C

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Aug 27, 2020

Excellent course!