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Supply Chain Management

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.

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Rating 4.5★ based on 142 ratings
Length 11 weeks
Effort 14 hours of videos and quizzes
Starts Jul 3 (42 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) via Coursera
Instructor Bowon Kim
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Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Business Strategy

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supply chain management

Supply Chain Management - A learning perspective is an excellent course taught by Prof Dr Bowon Kim of KAIST on COURSERA.

I believe this is a great course whether you're a beginner in Supply Chain Management or already have not only some theoretical background but even practical/work experience as in my personal case.The approach that Prof. Kim uses in order to explain the concepts is very different than the one that I had when first being introduced to these concepts and I believe this makes the difference.

I hope that KAIST develop news courses about supply chain management.

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Thoroughly goes over a horizontal view of Supply Chain management, encompassing all elements needed to look at.

Great introduction to Supply chain management.

This course really helped to gain theoretical knowledge about Supply Chain Management and the different factors involved in it.

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bowon kim is a fabulous teacher.i enjoyed this course very good Sou neófito no assunto.

I really want to thank prof. Bowon Kim for his effort in arranging all these topics together and for providing us such important learning tools that enable us to improve not only SCM but also our professional skills.Thank to this course, I have a more critical capability to see phenomena on various and different perspective and I have understood how to take decisions that will lead to a sustainable SCM in the long term.

Very useful for online learner..... very useful insights into the subject.A huge kudos to Prof. Bowon Kim.

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.

I liked the real-life practical examples of companies given by Professor Bowon Kim and he is absolutely awesome at teaching and explains things so well.

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 .

it helps me a lot in the field of management Thank you so much Professor Bowon Kim for giving us your precious time and knowledge.

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A good overview of SCM and lessons well explained!!!

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Good course It has been a very good knowledge enhancement for SCM course Excellent Course for beginners This course really very helpful for students like me to gain knowledge in SCM and its functions and for the organisation perspective it will play a major role for the functions in which myself will be acting as a mediator to resolve these kind of operations whenever there is any problem occurs The course is informative and the lecturer gives plenty of real-world examples, making it easy to understand and enjoyable to learn.

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Rating 4.5★ based on 142 ratings
Length 11 weeks
Effort 14 hours of videos and quizzes
Starts Jul 3 (42 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) via Coursera
Instructor Bowon Kim
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Business Strategy

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