Roderick Gaines is a Research Director IDC’s Worldwide Supply Chain Strategies Program, responsible for providing research, analysis and guidance on key business and IT issues pertaining to manufacturing, retail, and healthcare supply chains. He currently leads the Worldwide Supply Chain Strategies: Warehousing, Inventory and Order Management practice, providing fact-based research, analysis and insight on best practices and the use of information technology to assist clients in improving their capabilities in these critical supply chain fulfillment areas. This practice specializes in advising clients on warehouse management systems, warehouse control and automation systems, distributed order management systems and more.

Roderick also covers the Wholesale Distribution industry.