The three volumes IFIP AICT 438, 439, and 440 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2014, held in Ajaccio, France, in September 2014. The 233 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They are organized in 6 parts: knowledge discovery and sharing; knowledge-based planning and scheduling; knowledge-based sustainability; knowledge-based services; knowledge-based performance improvement, and case studies.

Knowledge management.- Creative enterprise.- Quality management.- Design tools.- System engineering.- PLM.- Ontology.- Decision support system.- Collaboration maturity.- Business intelligence.- Enterprise 2.0.-
Scheduling.- Optimization.- Production planning and control.- Assembly line balancing.- Decoupling points.- Inventory management.- Supply chain management.- Multiechelon supply chain.- Analytic hierarchy process.- Enterprise resource planning.- Decision support systems.- Problem solving.- Vehicle routing.- Physical internet.