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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 21, 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.

AF

Oct 23, 2022

Thanks to Professor Bowon Kim I was able to understand a lot of SCM concepts as its my first course about that topic and science. and now I know where to start and where I am going. thanks alot

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By Iván C

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Oct 4, 2019

Los subtíitulos en ocasiones no concuerdan con el sentido de lo que el maestro expone.

By Ahmed H E

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Aug 4, 2025

The dialect was a bit of a hindrance, but the content and explanation are very good.

By Gottam R

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Nov 13, 2025

Very detailed explanation Like the way the tutor explains the very small topic..

By Do H C

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Jul 4, 2020

Really good course. The Professor's knowledge is amazing. His example is superb

By farhad z

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Nov 6, 2022

Good enough for those with prior knowledge or experience and also beginners

By Farzad H D

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Dec 31, 2020

So fundamental and not practical. Useful to learn about the SCM perspective

By harun k

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Mar 27, 2025

Eğitim kısmı iyi ve avantajlı ama sertifikanın paralı olması dezavantaj.

By Ibidunni A

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May 31, 2023

An excellent course for learning the rubrics of Supply Chain Management.

By Saurabh N

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May 13, 2020

Nicely explain and I guess it's useful for the person who is new to SCM.

By Ria H

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Oct 18, 2016

Great insight for those who are keen in pursuing supply chain management

By Carmen L C M

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Nov 25, 2024

excelente tema - sin embargo, está basado en información de 2015 aprox.

By Sherl K

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Sep 4, 2016

very useful insights into the subject.A huge kudos to Prof. Bowon Kim.

By aaron H

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Aug 18, 2021

Professor clearly explains business concepts in a tangible manner.

By Neal O

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Jul 1, 2020

A very good course for aspiring Industrial/Manufacturing Engineers

By Euler S O

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Jun 4, 2018

Amazing course, but Dr Kim never answered my questions!

By vivek r g

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Apr 24, 2018

could have been more practical than theoretical.

By Amit S

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Jun 13, 2023

Nice and information provided was well arranged

By Regenia H

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Oct 17, 2023

EXAMPLES NEEDS TO BE BROKEN DOWN MORE PLANILY.

By Md. A B I

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May 31, 2020

It’s a very good way to learn something new.

By The s

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Feb 21, 2019

it helps me a lot in the field of management

By sergio a o d

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Feb 28, 2019

Clear and easy teaching,

thanks mister Kim.

By Philip O

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Feb 26, 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.