Annual Report 2006 - Thai Beverage Public Company Limited

190Currently, the project is according to the schedule, as we have already gone live at five companies in the distillery groupand at Thai Alcohol PLC. We expect the 28 remaining companies to migrate to the SAP system under the project plan.In addition, we plan to extend the implementation scope of the current project as follows:• Extend SAP implementation to cover distillation operation at Sura Piset Thipharat Co., Ltd.• Extend SAP implementation to cover production planning and plant maintenance at Cosmos Brewery (Thailand) Co., Ltd.It is expected that the cost of the additional scope can be covered by the implementation budget approved bymanagement, but operation costs may slightly increase due to the increase in user licenses required.In addition to the above SAP implementation project plan, we plan to interface BC-Accounting system of 12 companiesin the marketing business group to the SAP system by September 2008, and to extend SAP implementation to ouroverseas businesses by the end of 2010.