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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 Andreas

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Jun 13, 2017

Its very good lecture for beginner.

By Mohammed M H C

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Sep 7, 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 9, 2020

Very detailed and informational!

By Deleted A

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Feb 23, 2023

Thank you for your great course

By SUJIT K

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Aug 4, 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 28, 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

By Mohamed S

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Nov 24, 2023

very useful thank you so much

By Mozzammil H P

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Feb 19, 2021

Easy to learn and enjoyed it.

By Faisal J

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Apr 25, 2020

Excellent Learning Experience

By Vijay k

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Feb 2, 2020

Very good source for learning

By Syed A A S

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Aug 1, 2020

this course is well designed

By Salfo D T

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May 11, 2017

I 'M SO HAPPY FO THIS COURSE

By 19_015 A H

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Mar 4, 2025

The experience was great.

By Kai M

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Jan 2, 2024

great learning experience