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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

NM

Jul 20, 2023

It was a great learning experience. Thanks to Professor Bowon Kim for giving us the valuable insights of Supply Chain Management in a very Macro and Micro level contents.

MB

Jul 18, 2020

I am a novice Finance & Accounting professional working in one of the manufacturing industries in Bangladesh. This course has been a great one for me! Thanks to KAIST as well as Coursera!

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By Philip O

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Feb 25, 2023

I loved the delivery style of prof Kim💯

By Harshil K

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Sep 27, 2023

Well taught and deeply explained course

By Yong C K

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Jan 15, 2021

Good concept on Supply Chain Management

By archit s

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Apr 18, 2020

Learned a lot of insights about SCM.

By Ramy A

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May 17, 2022

Thanks for your effort Prof . Kim

By Omulu O

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Feb 18, 2019

Is an endless opportunity course

By Quinn E

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Mar 29, 2019

Great course, very informative.

By Ahmed B

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Nov 25, 2018

Nice overall all course on SCM.

By BICHAIAH C

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Feb 27, 2025

very useful course, love it

By Babayeva K

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Aug 25, 2022

a bit borinng. but useful

By Janhavi R

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Dec 8, 2025

very insightful course

By MOHAMED H A

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Dec 16, 2020

Very nice and helpful

By Md. M U

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Jun 16, 2020

very good instructor

By Savindu V K

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Jul 30, 2020

It's a good course

By BEROUIJIL H

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Oct 18, 2023

very good cours

By Abimbola T

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Feb 21, 2022

very eplanatory

By Mounik.s

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Jul 11, 2020

v.v.good......

By Pishenbay U

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Sep 18, 2017

Great course~!

By FSC L 9

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Sep 12, 2019

Good course

By Joud A

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Nov 23, 2021

good

By Mazedin R

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Jun 25, 2021

great

By Rayhanul H R

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Jul 3, 2020

Great

By Ahmed s

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Mar 21, 2025

good

By Abdullah A F

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Dec 26, 2021

good

By Joseph E E

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Jun 2, 2025

Please We need A files Pdf for the Course .I have failed in the Quality module at 75% so please I want to take the certificate I have passed all including the final and this is the most hardest one we need to grade it at 70% and I is 6% of the course. Really I am very sad all my effort went without Result and we need the evaluation to be overall.