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Guessing future is hazardous business. This could be 2005 and you could predict GST will happen in 2006 !! You will be wrong by good 10 years !!

Still- as eternal optimists, we must look forward and bet on some promising horses. Here we go:

Prediction # 1: GST will happen but not much will change on ground

Consensus is that GST WILL see light of the day in 2016, but it will be a good 2-3 years before we see major shifts in supply chains. That will be by 2018.

Prediction # 2: Many start-ups will fold- but will raise standards

Hyperlocal logistics companies, Intra-city logistics aggregators, Trucking portals- will need to show traction. Many will not get much and fold. BUT will establish a new way of doing business. 

Prediction # 3: It will be CLOUDY all year and will rain MOBILES

The shift to cloud based software as a service- typically with mobile as starting and ending point- will accelerate. Smaller logistics players will have a never before choice of high tech at low prices. 

Prediction # 4: Device and automation will call shots

All major and smaller but ambitious companies will invest in automation, sensors, IoT. There will be many false starts- but trend will set in for next 3-4 years.

Prediction # 5: Green Supply Chains will move from rhetoric to compulsion

Delhi has lead the way- solutions may be debatable but pollution is now Agenda Number One and cars and trucks are the villains. 

This will spread- as more cities will ask whether they live in a different country than Delhi- and why they too should not ban + fine \"poison spewing\" trucks.

Thus, more regulation, newer vehicles, better fuel- will be high on regulation agenda.