To equip the needs of the school personnel, teachers, learners and stakeholders in terms of technology advancement, enhancing the teaching-learning process and meet the challenges of the 21st century, the DepEd responded to the TVL-LTE backlog of public schools.   As one of the many recipients of this program, schools in Deped Bulacan has been receiving various quantity of different TVL-LTE packages every school year. These numerous TVL tools and equipment are considered as school properties and the school heads, property custodians and their respective coordinators together with their laboratory managers/teachers are responsible in maintaining the said tools and equipment.

       The manual process of managing the asset of the school properties oftentimes causes a lot of problems such as unidentified custody, inaccurate data, and no proper tagging of tools and equipment. The Project ATM or Project Asset Tagging Management is capable of addressing these recurring problems that hinders the proper inventory and tracking system of this institution. In addition, it would easily identify the custodian of the tools and equipment, prevent the items from misplacing, missing, avoiding the loss of assets and allow a transparency and accountability for the property. Through also the used of this innovation, schools and offices will have a systematized process in asset tagging and record keeping.

       Project ATM or Project Asset Tagging Management is set to be installed in the division thru the effort of Dr. Joel I. Vasallo, EPS in TLE-ICT which aims to create a system of physical tagging of asset inventories using barcoding system which incorporates the use of innovative technology that is in demand and timely for faster and more reliable process.

       This asset tagging is only a portion of the whole asset management concept which will be developed in our division. Part of this innovation idea includes proper project proposal and budget request review, integration of computer-generated forms and template, real-time asset inventory update, optimization and monitoring of usage of school assets, and inclusion of all the tools, equipment, and all asset inventory of the school and offices.

Project ATM (Asset Tagging Management) of SDO Bulacan intend to:

1. synergize all schools and offices in DepED Bulacan in ensuring the proper       implementation of asset management system;

2. systematized the flow of monitoring, identification, tracking and controlling   of assets particularly tools and equipment; and

3. ensure awareness and accountability on all DepED personnel the crucially of asset management.