NMS2S Update: Migrated Testing Records
As operators start digging deeper into NMS2S, there is a new feature worth understanding before anybody starts sounding alarms. Inside an inventory item's details, NMS2S displays a Pass/Fail testing status, looks like a green bubble. Here's where things get strange.
In the detailed view, the name of the product from the parent batch of your product may not necessarily match.
Why This Is Happening
AIO’s that say gummies, gummies that say flower, what gives?
Our working assumption is that NMS2S is exposing the testing lineage inherited from a source or parent inventory record, rather than necessarily displaying a finished-product test performed on the item currently being viewed.
Under BioTrack, subsequent testing after an intermediate product had already been tested had limitations. Finished products could receive additional testing, but those COAs were often maintained as external records rather than becoming part of the inventory's visible digital testing history. Products that were already sale-ready before the NMS2S transition were also grandfathered in.
So legacy inventory migrated into NMS2S may carry a testing history that looks very different from products manufactured, tested and packaged entirely within the new system.
Splitting Hairs
Throughout New Mexico, extraction splits have been common. An operator could send material to another producer for processing and receive a portion of the resulting oil back. That oil might then be used internally, transferred again or simply sold wholesale. The next company could do the same thing.
After enough transfers, splits and conversions, material originating from one tested inventory record could wind up incorporated into products belonging to several producers and brands across the state.
If NMS2S is now exposing those inherited testing relationships, we're suddenly looking at pieces of a supply chain that weren't particularly visible before. You might find out the oil in yuor Sublime AIO’s is the same as your Smokiez gummies.
What Producers Should Expect
The immediate concern for some producers is someone sees the wrong product name attached to a test and assumes the test itself is wrong. That conclusion shouldn't be made from the detailed testing screen alone.
For migrated inventory, the product's creation and testing dates matter. Its inventory history matters. Its source inventory matters. And, where applicable, the operator's externally maintained COAs matter. Compliance officers are aware that legacy products require that additional context when reviewing testing status.
Going forward, products created entirely within NMS2S should begin developing much cleaner digital histories. Until then, we're dealing with years of legacy inventory, BioTrack limitations, intermediate testing, external COAs, splits, wholesale transfers and manufacturing relationships suddenly being represented inside a new system.
For now, the product displayed on the testing record and the testing lineage of the material may be two very different things. And as we start following those histories, we're probably about to find out just how much oil has been moving around New Mexico.
