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Implicaciones de la revolución 4.0 en las operaciones logísticas propias de los negocios internacionales

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This article could find that the logistics operations related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), occur in three frameworks of understanding that identify their implications in international business. First, at a historical juncture that marks a new paradigm of logic related to the production lines and manufacturing of industries, adopting an approach focused on the use of increasingly automated and digitized tools (robotics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things). Second, in terms of business logistics, by achieving greater customization of the supply chain and the methods of control and evaluation of companies, through the intelligent automation of physical and cybernetic systems. And, finally, from the benefits and disadvantages that it was possible to perceive in the international and national context in terms of the application of the logistic operations of Industry 4.0. In which case, the benefits related to the administrative and operational scope, while the disadvantages, to the excessive specialization of work and the disadvantageous position of the Latin American countries.