The object - the processes of assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises; the purpose - improving methods for assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises through the use of multivariate non-metric scaling; the methods analysis, synthesis, comparison and synthesis, system analysis and systematic approach, economic and mathematical statistics, multidimensional scaling; the new approach - the first time demonstrated the possibility significant increase in the validity of the competitive comparisons reliability and accuracy of overall evaluations of competitiveness due to using methods of multidimensional scaling as a basic tool ordering enterprises in terms of competi- tiveness in the multivariate space parameters that characterize the state factors and indicators of the competitiveness of enterprises; the results - methodological terms and methodical approach to assessing the competitiveness of enterprises, which ensures the development of a multilevel hierarchical system of assessments competitiveness of enterprises through a sequence of generalized primary and group The object - the processes of assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises; the purpose - improving methods for assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises through the use of multivariate non-metric scaling; the methods analysis, synthesis, comparison and synthesis, system analysis and systematic approach, economic and mathematical statistics, multidimensional scaling; the new approach - the first time demonstrated the possibility significant increase in the validity of the competitive comparisons reliability and accuracy of overall evaluations of competitiveness due to using methods of multidimensional scaling as a basic tool ordering enterprises in terms of competi- tiveness in the multivariate space parameters that characterize the state factors and indicators of the competitiveness of enterprises; the results - methodological terms and methodical approach to assessing the competitiveness of enterprises, which ensures the development of a multilevel hierarchical system of assessments competitiveness of enterprises through a sequence of generalized primary and group The object - the processes of assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises; the purpose - improving methods for assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises through the use of multivariate non-metric scaling; the methods analysis, synthesis, comparison and synthesis, system analysis and systematic approach, economic and mathematical statistics, multidimensional scaling; the new approach - the first time demonstrated the possibility significant increase in the validity of the competitive comparisons reliability and accuracy of overall evaluations of competitiveness due to using methods of multidimensional scaling as a basic tool ordering enterprises in terms of competi- tiveness in the multivariate space parameters that characterize the state factors and indicators of the competitiveness of enterprises; the results - methodological terms and methodical approach to assessing the competitiveness of enterprises, which ensures the development of a multilevel hierarchical system of assessments competitiveness of enterprises through a sequence of generalized primary and group The object - the processes of assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises; the purpose - improving methods for assessing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises through the use of multivariate non-metric scaling; the methods analysis, synthesis, comparison and synthesis, system analysis and systematic approach, economic and mathematical statistics, multidimensional scaling; the new approach - the first time demonstrated the possibility significant increase in the validity of the competitive comparisons reliability and accuracy of overall evaluations of competitiveness due to using methods of multidimensional scaling as a basic tool ordering enterprises in terms of competi- tiveness in the multivariate space parameters that characterize the state factors and indicators of the competitiveness of enterprises; the results - methodological terms and methodical approach to assessing the competitiveness of enterprises, which ensures the development of a multilevel hierarchical system of assessments competitiveness of enterprises through a sequence of generalized primary and groupperformance techniques non-metric scaling; implemented in enterprises of ferrous metallurgy in Ukraine, in particular, in Consolidation of Enterprises "Metallurgprom"; the field of use - economy and enterprises management (according to the types of economic activity).