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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

AA

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 Luiz F B

Feb 4, 2021

Participating in the "Supply Chain Management: A Learning Perspective" course was a very rewarding experience for me! Professor Bowon Kim showed wonderful insights about SCM. I would like to hear from my heart that Brazilian education could offer a course like this, and that one day we could have teachers as good as Mr. Bowon Kim! Thank you KAIST, Coursera and Professor Bowon Kim! It was an incredible experience to get to know this great course!

By Severin P D W

Dec 28, 2023

A big thank you to Professor Bowon Kim for providing me with the opportunity to learn from such an exceptional and talented teacher. Particularly, the gentle and informative approach to refreshing some of my statistics and probability knowledge was greatly appreciated. I thoroughly enjoyed this course, and it ignited a deeper interest, inspiring me to delve further into the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM).

By Deleted A

Jun 22, 2021

This course provided by Dr. Bowon Kim was very interesting and provided me with a very comprehensive overview of the basics of SCM as my main objective was to obtain a clear understanding about the key concepts of supply chain management. Morever, the overall course structure has been designed in a very fun manner which piqued my interest and also enabled me to focus all my attention on completing this course.

By Yasser C

Mar 23, 2020

I firstly want to thanks Pr.PUWONKIM for this amazing course i have realy learned a lot,i did enjoy the course it was great from all the sides and the professor is realy cool, the course was deep and simple and it gaves me the hole vision about the concept of SCM it wasn't technic and it was more about concepts and modilisation which is cool for me and this is clear from the title learning perspective.

By Massahiro M

Jan 5, 2017

Sou neófito no assunto. Fiz o curso para fins de capacitação no assunto. Acredito que consegui o meu intento. Agora consigo ler artigos e livros sobre o tema. Foi uma forma segura e de qualidade para capacitação no tema. Espero encontrar no Coursera cursos sobre o tema SCM que possam me auxiliar na pratica dos conhecimentos adquiridos bem como no aprimoramentos da minha capacitação.

By Carlos M

Feb 2, 2023

Simply a brilliant course. I have worked for almost 30 years as an Engineer across four different industries and four different countries and I thought I did know a lot about value, value chain and quality. This course has gave immediate insights about those subjects with a new perspective. In addition, the lecturer is just magnificent in terms of didactic and knowledge.

By amal m

Nov 18, 2020

Very comprehensive, intriguing and interesting. Professor Bowon Kim doesn't only give you information to increase your knowledge, he also manages to make you think and reflect on what you learn. The material is very well structured and the content is of high value. I would definitely recommend it for different manager roles and not only supply chain.

By Manuel A S

Jun 21, 2020

Outstanding lecture and principals of understanding supply chain management(A LEARNING PERSPECTIVE). Mr. Bowon Kim is an excellent professor. His lectures and instructions were significantly clear and to the point. Thank you Google for this opportunity as well as Kaist for letting me take this course. All the best. Lets continue learning.

By celia n

May 25, 2022

O curso proporciona um conhecimento amplo não somente sobre Supply Chain Management, amplia sua visão para outras questões. A cada módulo uma nova percepção de questões que fazem parte do nosso cotidiano.

E por não ter conhecimento não nos atentamos as esses detalhes.

O professor é excelente e bem didático para lecionar as aulas.

By Taiwo O

May 28, 2018

Quite interesting and elaborate. It was very practical for me as i have the responsibility of managing raw materials where i work and i also interact with both internal customer i.e users of the materials and eternal customers i.e suppliers. I immediately started applying the principles learnt and it has been quite helpful

By Ashim C

Jun 19, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed selecting and studying this course. It was organized very systematically using recent practical examples (available in newspaper/magazines) to reinforce the theoretical lectures. I like the way Prof. Kim explains the entire course with great care and attention. I will definitely recommend this course.

By osama a a a

Jun 14, 2020

this course is really full of facts and knowledge. Many times we have this doubt that we will gain only theoretical knowledge but in this lectures many such complicated topics are explained using practical examples. I am really grateful to have this course completed with great scores and with great knowledge.

By Maria J P

Nov 9, 2020

Me gustó aprender que la cadena de suministro no se basa sólamente en transportar mercaderia y trabajar internamente de la empresa sino que fusiona todos los aspecto posibles de desarrollo de la organización con los proveedores, clientes y medio ambiente con el objetivo que seguir mejorando sus operaciones.

By Paloma G B

Aug 5, 2022

I think this course is able to link both profesional content and amateur content, just knowing the basics you will be able to follow. The explanations are very precised and you can tell there is a lot of time and care invested on it! If you are looking for adquiring valuable knowledge, this is your course

By Sunil K

Mar 7, 2021

It was nice customised course for enhancing basic and foundation knowledge of SCM. It has increased my learning and knowledge for SCM and Value Chain to utilise the same in my personal and professional growth. Thanks to Coursera and Professor Bowon Kim for providing the open learning opportunities.

By shashank s

Jul 8, 2019

This particular course helped me gain knowledge in supply chain

It has changed my perspective about the same.

The lecturer is great Mr bowon kim.

I thank the KAIST Community for helping me with the course and also thank Mr brown without which it would have been impossible to complete the same .

By Fermin E H I

Dec 12, 2020

It is an honor to be able to enrich this knowledge for the professional development of each person, and to contribute to competitiveness in a professional market that demands a lot. A thousand thanks to KAIST University. Excellent Supply Chain Mananger Perspective Course.

By Guillermina G

Apr 16, 2022

Professor Bowon Kim is an excellent instructor. Concepts are very well explained making sense from one week to the other. He goes from general concepts to more specific ones. Supply Chain Management seems easy to grasp thanks to him. Great certificate and better teacher!

By Bharat V

Sep 18, 2020

Excellent course taught by Mr Bowon Kim, a fantastic professor. Learning methodology is crafted through out the course in a beautiful way !

My learnings from this course content are really valuable which will definitely help in shaping good of my career path.

By Claudia C

Mar 24, 2021

This course was very helpful to refresh and acknowledge the importance of Supply Chain Management in the organizations. It’s value and the impact in the differentiation of the organizations. The course was very clear with many examples and visual teaching.

By Danish S

May 12, 2020

It has been an amazing course from start to end. Professor Kim explained key concepts on supply chain management in an easy and understandable way with practical examples. It is recommended for anyone who wants to gain entry level insights of the subject.

By Anas I

Mar 1, 2024

This is really one of the best courses I have ever taken. The amount of information and the quality of information has simply been amazing and invaluable to me. The teaching was superb and I have never felt as connected to a course as I did for this one.

By Damith M C

Mar 3, 2021

Great course, whatever the new you can adjust it quickly. best supply chain course ever I had. great & highly recommended for everyone who's seeking supply chain management area. and also this will help me build my career and my qualifications.

By Somesh V

Jul 20, 2020

it was great experience learning with KAIST university and special thanks to prof. Bowon kim he is very great mentor in whole course which have given real experience of how supply chain works in world thank you sir! with my great wishes.

By Horacio T P

Aug 8, 2017

Esta muy interesante el curso y con muchas herramientas muy buenas para conocer sobre la cadena de suministro y la nueva perspectiva de aprendizaje, recomiendo mucho tomar cursos en esta plataforma es muy sencillo y gratis :) excelente.