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The processing and manufacturing module usually picks up where cultivation leaves off or it can be a stand-alone module in your system. For many organizations that have cultivation and manufacturing licenses and complete both in the same facilities, cultivation will normally end with a harvest that will result in an output of bulk wet flower.

Processing normally begins with an input of bulk wet flower that is dried or put through some other extraction process.  Processing and manufacturing can also begin with products purchased at some stage and then assembled in your facility.

First, you will need to tell the system how you are processing your cannabis products by entering information about the materials you use, the areas of your production plant where work takes place, and how materials move through your manufacturing facilities to create your end products.

The terms processing, manufacturing, and production are often used interchangeably, but they refer to different steps in the way you generate your products.

Processing usually refers to the steps you take to prepare and/or extract the desired chemicals from your cannabis products.

Manufacturing is the term normally used to describe the process of assembling your products.

Processing and manufacturing is completed through production orders. Production orders tell us what materials go into a product, what work is completed to generate products, where the work is completed, and what we expect the output to be.

There are two main types of manufacturing that we usually see in any industry and this remains true for cannabis as well.

• Discrete Manufacturing – Usually follows the same exact steps and results in identical products. These products normally could be disassembled into the original raw materials. This could be something like vape pen cartridge with a reusable battery that is included.

• Process Manufacturing – This is usually more intricate. Raw materials are often blended in a way that is irreversible. This could be something like producing distillate from bulk wet flower.

For cannabis compliance, we are often required to be able to trace batches, lots, or even specific plants all the way through the manufacturing process for reporting or in case of a recall.