Applicability of 'Forwarding instructions' in the absence of an ordering context

[Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971@mac.com>]

Hi,

(thanks so far for the thoughful responses, I'll reply to those later)

I have a use case from the car leasing domain and have a question  
regarding the applicability of UBL.

The use case is taken from the car remarketing part of the leasing  
domain: when a leasing contract ends, it is (at least in Germany)  
comman practice for the leasing customer to drop of the car at some  
location (e.g. her home address) and inform the leasing company that  
the car can be picked up.
The leasing company will then issue a request to some third party  
transport service supplier to pick up the car and deliver it to the  
company's used car parking lot.

For the collaboration between the leasing company and the transport  
service provider I would like to apply UBL processes and documents  
but I am not sure

- whether UBL's processes are applicable at all
- whether the request to the transport service supplier is an offer  
or a forwarding request
- how to best go about extending the appropriate document to provide  
the transport parameters to the
   service provider (location, vehicle plate number,  time of pick up  
etc.) - this seems like a general
   issue when ordering services, ...yes?

There are about half a dozen other processes in the remarketing  
domain (many of them service requests)....should I generally try to  
extend the UBL or is the use case domain so different that I should  
make up my own processes and documents (maybe reusing UBL components)?

What about other areas of logistsics (coordination of service  
providers) - is UBL intended to fit or has this never been considered?

Thanks for help,

Jan