It is published by Wiley-Blackwell and the editors-in-chief are Wendy L. Tate (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Andreas Wieland (Copenhagen Business School), and Tingting Yan (Texas Tech University).

It was renamed Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management in 1974, then renamed International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management in 1991, obtaining its current name in 1999.

[1] The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief: The journal is rated class 4 ("top journals in their field", 4* being the highest score) in the Chartered Association of Business Schools' 2021 Academic Journal Guide[2] and class "A" (middle class of three) in the 2023 BWL Meta Rating.

[3] It is also one of four empirical journals used by the SCM Journal List to rank universities' supply chain management research output.

[4] According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 10.6.