Block Planning High level process flow and configuration - PPDS

Dear Experts,
I am trying to understand more about Block planning
from my understanding
Block Planning is a pre-assignment of resource and capacities for a limited duration of time which mean dedicated resource for a particular operation
correct me if i am wrong
which mean I am able to hold a Resource A for a particular date like say march 20 and march 21 for a particular production version of operation like say 10
if my understanding is correct what are the basic configuration setting and the process flow
I am sure you need to explain loads , i am sorry about that
Thanks in advance
Regards
Raj

Hello,
Finally we found a partial solution to work with Adjust & Reschedule Block limits.
The overloaded blocks are extended inside to the cycle limits. Unfortunately the blocks with free capacity are not shortened.
Does anybody have an idea why the heuristic is working for the extend but not for the shortened?
Thanks, Marius

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