This message is a symptom, not the illness. Transfers (and WIP issues) have two legs, an issue out and a receipt in, and the receiving leg is only allowed to cost after the issuing leg fully finishes. The issuing leg is stuck on the empty-shelf (negative onhand) problem, so its twin waits politely. Sister messages from the same family: “the in-transit receipt does not have an issue cost”, “the receipt is missing a cost”.
Downstream casualty: the ISSUE leg is stuck on negative onhand; its receipt twin waits.
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Checked Cost processor behavior for Oracle Fusion Cost Management, rewritten in plain words from publicly known troubleshooting practice and reviewed by a working consultant. Checked against the current release, Jul 2026. Amounts, account names and navigation vary by configuration; verify in your own instance and test before acting.