JME_V6_N1_Art1 Davinder Saini C.S. Jawalkar Journal on Mechanical Engineering 2249 - 0744 6 1 1 8 Indian Automotive Industry, Growth, Supply Chain Management (SCM), SCM Practices, SCM Challenges The Indian vehicle manufacturing industry along with child part and raw material industries are basking a healthy and increasing growth, in the last two decades. This shoot up has been noticed since the economic liberalization happened in early 1990's. Indian automotive market has grown from 5 million vehicles (2002) to 23.4 million vehicles (FY 2014-2015). nd th India is already on the 2 place in two-wheeler (2W) segment and on 4 place in Commercial Vehicles (CV). India is now poised to rank amongst the top three global automotive markets in all vehicles, by the year 2020. Observing such volatility in the present and future of the Indian auto market, it calls for an analysis of challenges and complexities of Supply Chain Management (SCM) practices that are catering to the industry, so that the trends will shape the futuristic supply chain management practices which can be given a try to predict and understand. This paper seeks to analyse the Indian auto market future trends and presents the status as well as futuristic view of complexities and challenges that affects the SCM practices. It is the best hope that this study will provide an understanding which will help in adopting good SCM practices in auto industry and lead to various competitive advantages. November 2015 - January 2016 Copyright © 2016 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=3735