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For ice cream plant managers, frozen dessert production leads & operations finance

Flag yield variance before it hits your margin

Every night, WebRun opens Mar-Kov, compares each batch's actual yield to its formulated expected yield, pulls the ingredient cost per unit from QuickBooks to estimate the dollar impact of any shortfall, and logs a variance report to Google Sheets ranked by cost impact so the biggest losses get looked at first.

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Every night after production close WebRun
1 Mar-Kov compare actual to expected yield
2 QuickBooks price the yield gap
3 Google Sheets log the variance report
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Step by step

What does WebRun do on every run?

The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.

  1. WebRun signs in and gets to work

    Opens mar-kov.com in a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys.

  2. 1
    Mar-Kov - compare actual to expected yield
    mar-kov.com How to Automate Mar-Kov
    WebRun in Mar-Kov: compare actual to expected yield
    WebRun opens Mar-Kov to compare actual to expected yield.
    • Open Mar-Kov and pull every batch run today with its actual output and its formulated expected yield
    • Calculate the variance in gallons or units for each batch
    • Note the flavor and shift for each batch with a variance

    Done when Every batch run today has its actual yield, expected yield, and variance calculated.

  3. 2
    QuickBooks - price the yield gap
    • Look up the current per-unit ingredient cost for each flavor with a yield variance
    • Multiply the shortfall by the per-unit cost to estimate the dollar impact
    • Read costs only. Do not create or post any entry in QuickBooks

    Done when Every variance has an estimated dollar impact based on current ingredient costs.

  4. 3
    Google Sheets - log the variance report
    google.com How to Automate Google Sheets
    WebRun in Google Sheets: log the variance report
    WebRun opens Google Sheets to log the variance report.
    • Open the Yield Variance Report sheet
    • Add a row per batch with flavor, shift, variance amount, and estimated dollar impact
    • Sort the day's batches by dollar impact, highest first

    Done when Today's variance report is logged and sorted by cost impact.

How do I catch production yield variance before it erodes margin?

WebRun compares each batch's actual yield to its formulated expected yield in Mar-Kov every night, then reads the per-unit ingredient cost from QuickBooks to estimate the dollar impact of any shortfall. It logs the results to a Google Sheet ranked by cost impact, so plant management can see which flavors, shifts, or batches are eating into margin first.

  • Yield losses are ranked by dollar impact instead of buried in a raw output list
  • The biggest margin risk gets reviewed the next morning instead of at month end
  • Nothing is posted to QuickBooks, so your books stay exactly as your accountant left them

Built for ice cream plant managers · frozen dessert production leads · operations finance · co-packers tracking COGS

Run settings

How is each run configured?

Starting pageWhere Chrome opens at the start of each run
mar-kov.com
ScheduleRuns automatically on this cadence
Every night after production close
DeliveryHow each run's result reaches you
Variance report · Google Sheets
OutputWhat each run produces - A daily variance report ranked by dollar impact, with the flavor, shift, and shortfall for every batch that missed expected yield.
Spreadsheet
Setup & safety

Secure by default

Connect once, stays signed in

WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.

Your credentials stay in your own private environment - WebRun never stores your passwords.
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Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.

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Typed input ALLOW
Shell command BLOCK
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Good to know

Questions, answered

Does it post anything to my accounting in QuickBooks?

No. WebRun only reads the current per-unit ingredient cost from QuickBooks to estimate dollar impact. It never creates, edits, or posts a journal entry or bill.

What counts as a yield variance?

Any batch whose actual output falls short of the expected yield calculated from its Mar-Kov formulation. Even a small shortfall is logged, though the sheet ranks the biggest dollar impacts first.

Is the dollar impact exact?

It's an estimate based on current per-unit ingredient cost from QuickBooks, useful for spotting trends and prioritizing which batches to investigate, not a substitute for a full cost accounting review.

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