Data integrity in Metrc is crucial for ensuring regulatory compliance in the cannabis industry. For businesses using Metrc, discrepancies in inventory, sales, or other key areas can lead to significant consequences, from operational disruptions to hefty fines. Weedetect identifies, reports, and prioritizes discrepancies based on their potential impact to your operation, ensuring your business stays compliant and runs smoothly. Here's how we categorize and prioritize discrepancies:
1. Regulatory Impact (High Priority)
High-priority discrepancies are those that could directly trigger regulatory action, or pose the greatest risk to your business's operations. For example, Metrc inventory discrepancies like mismatched quantities or unrecorded packages can result in immediate audits and penalties. Additionally, errors in expiration dates on products can lead to severe compliance violations, such as selling expired goods, which can jeopardize your license.
Examples of high-priority discrepancies are:
Sell-by dates
Use-by dates
Expiration dates
Inventory levels
Harvest counts
Cannabinoid levels
Sale transactions
2. Operational Impact (Medium Priority)
Discrepancies that could cause operational inefficiencies or potentially yield regulatory action are considered medium priority. An example of a medium-priority discrepancy is an incorrect product name. These can cause internal issues that might not immediately attract regulatory attention but have potential to disrupt your daily operations.
Examples of medium-priority discrepancies are:
Plant batch, plant, and package locations
Action timestamps, such as inventory packaged date, harvesting dates
Product names and strains
3. Informational Discrepancies (Low Priority)
Errors that don't have immediate regulatory or operational consequences fall into the low-priority category. An example of a low-priority discrepancy is an incorrect harvested date. While these errors should be corrected to maintain accurate records, they are less likely to result in significant penalties.
How do I determine what priority Weedetect has assigned to a Metrc discrepancy?
To determine the priority Weedetect has assigned to a discrepancy, navigate to your audit report within the application. Each discrepancy will be labeled with a priority level (Low, Medium, or High) based on its potential impact. You can find the priority status directly next to each discrepancy in the list, making it easy to understand which issues need immediate attention.
A given record may have many discrepancies. With this being the case, Weedetect will group discrepancies by the record they belong to. In order to view the specific discrepancies for a given record, expand the record.