Business leaders are making decisions every single day.

Some are straightforward. Others have the potential to save (or cost) hundreds of thousands of pounds.

When it comes to making important business decisions, what do you rely on most?

📊 The data?
or
💡 Your experience and intuition?

Having spent years helping food manufacturers reduce indirect overhead costs, we’ve seen both approaches in action.

The data tells us what is happening. It highlights spending patterns, supplier inconsistencies, contract leakage, price anomalies and opportunities that would otherwise remain hidden.

But data on its own rarely tells the whole story.

Experience adds context. It helps you understand why something is happening, whether a supplier relationship is worth preserving, when a saving is too good to be true, or when the lowest price isn’t actually the best commercial decision.

At Pare, every procurement project starts with the numbers because they provide an objective picture. But the recommendations we make are always shaped by commercial judgement, operational realities and years of procurement experience.

The best decisions rarely come from relying on one or the other.

They come from combining solid evidence with practical experience.

👉 When you’re making significant business decisions, do you trust the data first, or do you tend to follow your instinct?