TSE Prime-listed Gunze Adopts TOKIUM AI Statement Entry

TOKIUM Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Kenichi Kurosaki; hereinafter "TOKIUM"), which provides accounting AI agents, announced that Gunze Corporation (Headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka; President and Representative Director: Toshiyasu Saguchi; hereinafter "Gunze") has adopted TOKIUM AI Statement Entry.

■Background

Gunze Corporation, founded in 1896 and listed on the TSE Prime Market, operates diverse businesses including apparel, plastic films, and medical products.

The company and its group companies process over 4,200 invoices monthly, totaling more than 7,700 line items. Since transaction details vary by business division and group company, there is a wide variety of journal entry patterns. In particular, journal entry for invoices with many line items has been a significant burden on staff and a long-standing challenge.

■Reasons for Selection and Expected Effects

The decisive factor for adopting TOKIUM AI Statement Entry was its ability to handle different journal entry patterns for each business division. The AI automatically determines account codes and inputs journal entries based on transaction details, amounts, vendor names, and past journal entry data, allowing it to flexibly handle complex entries. The fact that the AI automatically learns from user corrections and improves accuracy with use was also highly evaluated. Additionally, the ease of immediate use without detailed initial setup was a contributing factor.

With the introduction of TOKIUM AI Statement Entry, Gunze expects to reduce journal entry man-hours by 3,000 hours annually. Currently, it has been introduced in some departments as a pilot, and the scope of use will be gradually expanded for company-wide deployment.

■Comment from Mr. Takafumi Watanabe, Manager, Section 1, Business Management Office, Finance and Accounting Department, Gunze Corporation

While processing invoice data is a critical task for the accounting department, it traditionally required significant man-hours, making operational efficiency an urgent issue. We highly value TOKIUM AI Statement Entry for its ability to digitize data in compliance with our company's rules, its low setup burden during implementation, and its continuous accuracy improvement through AI learning. In the ongoing pilot operation, we have confirmed the improvement in AI-driven data digitization accuracy, and we plan to expand these results to group companies to drive business process reform across the entire group.

■About the Accounting AX Project

This project, implemented by TOKIUM, was launched with the aim of freeing people from all accounting "tasks." It seeks to automate analog tasks remaining in accounting operations through AI, creating an environment where everyone can focus on their core responsibilities. Beyond developing and providing AI agents, TOKIUM promotes AX in accounting operations through actual surveys, case studies, and webinars.
Details here: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000432.000009888.html

■About Accounting AI Agent "TOKIUM"

Accounting AI Agent "TOKIUM" is a service where AI, professional staff, and cloud systems are highly integrated, autonomously making decisions and performing tasks like a single dedicated staff member, automatically completing corporate accounting operations. It frees business professionals from routine tasks such as business trip arrangements, approvals, statement entries, and reconciliation.
URL: https://www.keihi.com/keiri-ai-agent/

■About TOKIUM Inc.

Established: June 26, 2012

Representative Director: Kenichi Kurosaki

Location: Nomura Real Estate Ginza Building 12F, 6-18-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Capital: 100 million yen

Business Activities: Provision of accounting AI agents such as expense reports and invoice management

URL: https://corp.tokium.jp/

■About Gunze Corporation

Headquarters: Herbis OSAKA Office Tower, 2-5-25 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka

Representative: Toshiyasu Saguchi, President and Representative Director

Founded: August 10, 1896 (Meiji 29)

Number of Employees: 1,401 (non-consolidated) 4,339 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2025)

Business Activities:

Plastic films, engineering plastics, mechatronics

Medical field

Innerwear, legwear, lifestyle apparel, textile materials

Sports clubs, environmental greening, commercial developers, hot spring facilities, estate development,

engineering

Homepage: https://www.gunze.co.jp/