Profile: Waterloo Manufacturing Software develops & markets TACTIC advanced planning and scheduling software to discrete industry manufacturers worldwide. TACTIC system is designed to be used as both production scheduling software, and advanced planning & scheduling software (APS software). Also called manufacturing scheduling software, or finite capacity scheduling (FCS) software, this type of system allows manufacturing staff to generate detailed dispatch lists for individual production machines, units of labor, and other manufacturing resources. These dispatch lists consider the finite, or limited capacity constraints of the resources being scheduled.