Asia Localization Service | Shearwater Japan

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.

Project Management

setting up team, project schedule and budget ownership, project progress and tasks allocation, point of contact, documents management, communication.

Business Requirement

Documents

Interviews and document analysis for system blueprint

(invoices, CoA, etc).

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.

Accounting

Master data: suppliers

Master data: customers

includes current vendors, and an import template.

Starting balances

Trial balance + open invoices + open bills imports.

Sales & Purchase

management

Forms modifications on local pages.

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.

12.

The assumption is a copy of English PDF forms with some additional fields. Options exist.

PDF

Admin and power users.

The assumption is a copy of English PDF forms with some additional fields Options exist.

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.