We are the largest NetSuite / Workday partner in Japan, recognized several times.
Localization Service
in Japan
Shearwater group offers the consulting know-how, experiences with legal requirements, technology skills, and implementation experiences to accelerate your implementation in Japan.

The Shearwater Group offers localization and global roll-out services in Asia,
in individual countries or in the whole region.
Why is Shearwater the best partner for you

Experienced IT consultants
Our expertise on Oracle Netsuite and Workday Adaptive Planning allows us to offer companies looking to expand their systems in Asia a cost-effective, simple, and highly-performing roll-out.

Leader of Asian market
Shearwater has team members all over Asia who provide high-quality customer support in several languages (Japanese, Chinese, English, French) striving to give a fast and actionable answer to quickly resolve issues.

All one-stop service
We provide project management, consulting, development, cooperation with other systems, accounting, and system admin training etc. all as a one-stop service.
Our one-stop localization service
You’ll get a dedicated team and flexible engagement structures toward a win-win collaboration.
1.Project Management
setting up team, project schedule and budget ownership, project progress and tasks allocation, point of contact, documents management, communication.
2.Business Requirement
Documents
Interviews and document analysis for system blueprint
(invoices, CoA, etc).
3.Initial Set-up
NetSuite default set-up including companies, subsidiaries, tax & accounting periods, users. Uses standard NetSuite bundles or Shearwater Bundles. This can be done on Sandbox first.
CoA, JE, tax codes.

4.Accounting
5.Master data: suppliers
includes current vendors, and an import template.

6.Master data: customers
includes current vendors, and an import template.

7.Starting balances
Trial balance + open invoices + open bills imports.

8.Sales & Purchase
management
Forms modifications on local pages.
9.Accounting & others
management
Forms modifications on local pages.
10.Users and roles

1~3 local role, center, users set-up.
11.Training

Admin and power users.

The assumption is a copy of English PDF forms with some additional fields. Options exist.
12.PDF
Japan has few legal requirements, but cultural and business customs can be cumbersome to address. We can note consolidated monthly invoices, invoice templates, detailed VAT codes, etc. We address those and bring our solutions if needed.
There is one legal requirement to address on Revenue Recognition. Usually, the VAT is also recognized along with the revenue, not at the timing of invoicing. NetSuite does not natively support this requirement, however, we have developed a solution.
You’ll get a dedicated team and flexible engagement structures toward a win-win collaboration.
Countries we support
Admin and power users.
The assumption is a copy of English PDF forms with some additional fields Options exist.
We can also help you with localizations or roll-outs other countries as well:
Shearwater Hong Kong
Shearwater Taiwan
Shearwater Asia
Shearwater Alaysia
Shearwater Vietnam
Shearwater Indonesia
Shearwater Australia
Feel free to contact us!
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