Production management is a progressively relevant issue for the industrial sector, constituted as a business advantage by integrating fundamental decentralized activities for the processes. Organizations manage to optimize their productive resources and be potentially sustainable in a world where competition is increasingly stronger and globalized by incorporating productive management mechanisms. The present study presents a systematic review of the literature on production management, using bibliometric instruments and methods. The Scopus database was implemented for the bibliographic exploration published between 2000 and 2021. The results obtained were processed using the Bibliometric, Software R and Gephi tools. The documents were classified by applying the tree metaphor, which orders them by means of three categories, classical, structural and recent, the latter allow identifying research perspectives, which address issues such as energy efficiency methods applied to processes of production, techniques for distribution systems in production and diffusion techniques. Finally, an agenda for future research is presented.