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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.

MK

Sep 14, 2020

I'm very thankful to Professor Bowon Kim and coursera. i have learn supply chain management,management capability, quality management, global supply chain management.

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By Gabriel C

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Sep 17, 2024

Muy educativo, ameno

By MOHAMMAD R U R

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Jun 19, 2025

Very Usefull Course

By Ravikumar K

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May 30, 2024

Excellent Teachings

By Deleted A

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Apr 20, 2020

Very great learning

By Anurag S

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Jun 9, 2016

Very Good Professor

By Akash A

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Feb 24, 2025

A Great Experience

By Javier a

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Dec 7, 2024

Curso muy completo

By Phuc L

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Apr 8, 2020

Very comprehensive

By Ramunė M

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Jan 30, 2022

Super!

Thank You!

By Bhavna C

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Aug 27, 2020

Excellent course!

By ayoub r

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Jun 14, 2020

thank you so much

By Duncan M

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Feb 28, 2025

Very informative

By Maaz A

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Jul 22, 2023

Improving Skills

By adamou Y M

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Nov 8, 2022

Très intéressant

By BABRUBAHAN S

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Oct 8, 2022

well explained.

By Lawal A O

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Mar 13, 2022

Very interesting

By Nagaraju A

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Feb 18, 2021

Very good course

By Krishna D

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Oct 6, 2020

excellent course

By soroush e

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Apr 22, 2018

Very good course

By Vasileios T

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Aug 13, 2016

Amazing lectures

By Telesforo I D A C

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Jun 10, 2017

EXCELENTE CURSO

By Miguel A C R

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May 7, 2017

Excelente curso

By Ahmedalshaikh

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Nov 18, 2021

ahmed alshaikh

By Jaideep K

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Aug 20, 2021

amazing course