Packaging can of course contribute to added utilities. Packaging costs mentioned mean mainly the material costs of packages. However, many others of these logistical cost items are impacted by packaging, too. Damages, cargo handling, control and warehousing costs are much dependent also on quality and performance of packages, and on information carried by the packages. That framework can thus been regarded as one structuration of packaging logistics factors.
Price is known to be possibly increased if utilities are added in the product.
Costs can be saved usually by improving efficiency and effectiveness. Those concepts appear not to be in equal terms, thus being not comparable and not measurable. Dichotomies between those concepts intended to function as elements of the structure are often overlapping, or straightly failures. Those elements are often somewhat inter-dependent. And, finally, capability of those frameworks to prediction appears non-existent or low.