Governance guide

How to govern Inventory in Salesforce

A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Salesforce with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Inventory in Salesforce means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Salesforce with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Inventory.

Steps

  1. Inventory Salesforce

    Connect Salesforce and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Salesforce to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Salesforce reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.

  4. Remediate and automate

    Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.

Salesforce controls for Inventory

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Salesforce catalog on the Salesforce connector page.

  • Salesforce Org

    Salesforce orgs that are configured to be scanned

  • Salesforce User

    Users with access to the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Profile

    Profiles defining baseline permissions in the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Permission Set

    Permission sets that layer additional permissions onto users

  • Salesforce Permission Set Group

    Permission set groups bundling multiple permission sets

  • Salesforce Connected App

    Connected apps integrated with the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce OAuth Token

    Third-party OAuth tokens granted by users in the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Login History

    Login events recorded for the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Role

    Roles in the Salesforce role hierarchy

  • Salesforce User License

    User license pools and their consumption in the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Permission Set License

    Permission set license pools and their consumption in the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Agent

    Agentforce agents and Einstein bots defined in the Salesforce org

  • Salesforce Agent Version

    Versions of Agentforce agents and Einstein bots

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