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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

DC

Apr 1, 2023

This is very helpful to all of us, especially students who need to enhance and develop their knowledge more. Thank you for this free course. I hope many students will know about this too!

SS

Jul 31, 2016

I was really an honor to have certification under KAIST and professor Bowon Kim, it was really a great experience to have this certification under your guidance. Thank you.

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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 1, 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

By Mangena D N R

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Sep 28, 2021

Very much use full course

By Arpan K S

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May 2, 2020

instructor was very good!

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 29, 2020

Nice course..very useful

By Ashraf I

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Feb 5, 2026

Nice to learn about SCM

By Gulraiz s

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Nov 28, 2024

i complete this cources

By Lộc N

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Aug 20, 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 Musa O N

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Dec 20, 2025

it was well explained

By Kiran K S

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Jul 15, 2023

Very Very Good Course