Competition growth, increase of requirements to production quality and services on the part of custom-ers and, being a consequence of it, growth of uncertain-ty in many markets force the increasing number of machine-building enterprises to focus their production and economic structure and a control system on work by consumer order. The article formulates the main approaches to management of production systems. Actions for in-creasing competitiveness of enterprise orders on the basis of internal potential are worked out. The structure of transformational production is considered. Reserves of increasing technical and economic efficiency for the purpose of competitive orders portfolio formation are revealed.