Forest System Design

Where Japan meets the world.

Business systems and market expansion support, for companies taking their business across borders.

Japan to the world

Japanese companies going global

Whether it is a first step overseas or connecting sites already running, we build systems that work across headquarters and overseas teams, and help you reach new markets.

The world to Japan

Overseas companies coming to Japan

From understanding the Japanese market and making first contacts, to the systems you need as the business takes root.

Business systems: our core

We stay with a project from the first conversation to day-to-day operation.

1

Understand the work

Listen to the people doing it, and map how information actually moves.

2

Design

Decide the data, the flow, and whether to buy, build or reuse what exists.

3

Build

Apps, approval workflows, dashboards, and AI that reads documents.

4

Run and extend

Support after go-live, and roll the system out to other sites and countries.

Typical work

  • Request & approval workflows
  • AI document reading
  • Dashboards & reporting
  • Data integration
  • Overseas roll-out

Selected work

Global agricultural machinery manufacturer

From shop-floor automation to group-wide roll-out

  • Handwritten delivery slips read by AI and posted into the master ledger, across five supplier formats
  • Quotation estimates standardised in one app, so any salesperson reaches the same figure
  • Internal audit managed end to end at the India site — plan, schedule, findings and corrective action
  • Robot automation jobs fed into the request flow, so people and robots work from the same records
  • Dashboards for the group's internal centre of excellence, built from activity across the organisation
  • Apps built at the South American site reviewed and rolled out to other overseas sites

Microsoft 365 · Low-code apps · Workflow automation · AI document reading · Dashboards

Food manufacturer

Contracts, purchasing and payments on one approval platform

  • One application covering four linked processes: internal decision approvals, contracts, purchasing and payment requests
  • Approval routes that follow the company's own rules, with notifications where staff already work
  • Requests built from shared master data — suppliers, accounts, departments — so figures reach accounting without re-keying
  • Billing data passed to the company's external invoicing service through an API layer, with master tables kept in sync automatically
  • Separate test and production environments, now live across departments

Microsoft 365 · Business apps · Approval workflows · System integration

Market expansion support

Practical groundwork for growing in a market, from choosing where to go to learning from the first responses.

Choose where to go

Shortlist countries, channels and customer groups, then set priorities.

Make it understood

Materials, presentations and replies to enquiries in the buyer's language.

Create contact

Chambers of commerce, trade fairs and direct outreach to local buyers.

Learn from real responses

Decide the next step from the enquiries and orders that actually arrive.

Why Forest System Design

The usual way

Consultant researches
IT vendor builds
Agency does marketing

Separate firms, separate briefs. What one learns rarely reaches the others.

Our way

Business systemsone team, in parallelMarket expansion

What we learn in the market feeds straight into the systems, and the other way round.

About us

Portrait of Atsushi Yamashita, Representative of Forest System Design
Atsushi YamashitaRepresentative

Forest System Design Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based company for businesses crossing borders in both directions: Japanese companies going global, and overseas companies coming to Japan. We design and build business systems, and support market expansion where it is needed.

Our systems work so far has been mostly with Japanese manufacturers, supporting both headquarters and their established overseas sites.

Company
Forest System Design Co., Ltd.
Representative
Atsushi Yamashita
Office
N&E Bldg. 6F, 1-12-4 GinzaChuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2025 (incorporated 2026)
Working style
Remote-first, across time zones
Memberships
German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (AHK Japan)Icelandic Chamber of Commerce in Japan

Contact

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