The article is devoted to the study of the essence, functions, tasks and tools of strategic controlling in the management of industrial enterprises. Strategic control is considered by the authors as a management methodology. The main content of controlling is the rationale for the interaction of the enterprise with the external environment, the identification of cause and effect relations of strategic problems, the identification of possible priority ways for the development of an industrial enterprise. It is emphasized that strategic controlling allows to adapt the parameters of the industrial enterprise to the parameters and risks of the external environment, to identify the discrepancy of the development strategy with the existing market...