Authors: Gabriela Leguizamon, Nelson V Yepes Gonzalez, Maria Victoria Cifuentes
The diferent sectors, which boost the developing of Colombian Economic, are searching to become competitive in globalized environment. The Panela sector is the second Colombian rural agro-industry, under Coffe Production, as well as a developing support for differents regions of the Country and its productive chain is characterized by its dynamism and by its various public and private actors. Achieving sector eficience and productivity involves to work with many variables and decision criteria that are submitted to uncertainly conditions. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, and it is used in order to figure out the main influential factors in competitiveness, which have to be in the focus of Panela agro-industry.