Chain of Custody and METRC Manifest Reconciliation
Distributors take temporary legal custody of cannabis inventory while moving it between cultivators, manufacturers and retailers, which means any gap between METRC transfer manifests and physical inventory counts becomes a compliance and financial risk simultaneously. We build reconciliation procedures that match manifests, vehicle logs and warehouse receiving documentation on a regular schedule so custody records hold up under a Cannabis Compliance Board review.
- Manifest-to-physical-count reconciliation by route
- Vehicle and warehouse security log documentation
- Discrepancy investigation procedures for shrinkage
Route and Fleet Cost Accounting
Cannabis-specific transport requires secured vehicles, trained personnel and specialized insurance, all of which create a cost structure that should be allocated across routes and client relationships rather than treated as a single undifferentiated overhead line. We help distributors calculate route-level cost so pricing to cultivators, manufacturers and retailers reflects actual delivery economics.
This matters most for distributors covering long routes between Nevada cultivation and manufacturing hubs and retail locations spread across Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Reno and outlying markets such as Elko, Mesquite and Pahrump, where distance materially affects per-delivery cost.
Excise Tax Responsibility in Distribution Arrangements
Depending on contractual structure, a distributor may be positioned as the party responsible for reconciling or remitting the wholesale excise tax on a cultivator-to-retailer transfer rather than the cultivator or retailer directly. We review distribution agreements to clarify which party bears filing responsibility, then build tracking to confirm the tax is remitted exactly once per transfer.
