Projects
A project is the container the work sits in. Twelfth’s daily sync opens one per supplier, per remit or per lane and keeps feeding it: new lines land in the project that is already open, and the project’s stages are the states its lines are in — Triage (what you have not settled), Pending (what you have), and the last stage, where the order is raised.
People also start projects by hand for work that is not a batch of lines — logging a problem out of a conversation, for example. Open Settings → Projects to set the three rules that apply to every project in the workspace.
Who raises the order
A supplier project spans every buyer holding that supplier’s lines: Mattel across three remits is one project and three sets of lines. This setting decides whether the order waits for all of them.
| Choice | What it means |
|---|---|
| Every buyer signs off | The order can only be raised once nothing is left open. Nobody’s lines are sent before they have decided them. |
| An owner may raise it early | A workspace owner or admin can raise the order with lines still open. The override is recorded on the project, and the units still open move into a new project for the same supplier so nothing in flight is lost. |
This is the same rule the supplier card reads on Settings → Suppliers; changing it in either place changes it in both.
Close a finished project that nobody touches
Off by default. When it is on, Twelfth closes a project where every line is decided and nothing has changed for the number of days you set (1–90).
It is never an override: the sweep only closes what a buyer could have closed themselves, and it never closes a project that still has an open line, or one the daily sync is still adding to. A project closed this way says so in its log.
Workflows people can start
Which workflows appear on New project. The engine’s own projects — supplier buys, price reviews and transfers — are opened by the daily sync and are not switched off here.
Workflows that are designed but not built yet appear as dashed cards on the New project form. Opening one shows what it will be and records that you want it, which is what decides the order they get built in.
What raising an order does today
Raising closes the batch and writes the consolidated order as a CSV file on the project, alongside the record of who raised it and when. Nothing is sent to the supplier: sending it — by email, or into the retailer’s own system — is the next step, and until it exists the file is the hand-off.
The next daily sync opens a fresh project for that supplier, so the new week’s lines never land in a batch that has already gone out.