1. Salesforce Help, Set Up Direct Store Delivery: This document outlines the prerequisites for DSD. It explicitly states, "Assign the required permission sets to your users. For direct store delivery, assign the Lightning Direct Store Delivery permission set." It also details the creation of an Action Plan Template for the delivery process. (See section: "Prerequisites for Direct Store Delivery").
2. Salesforce Help, Action Plans in Consumer Goods Cloud: This guide confirms the need for specific permissions. "To let users create and use action plans, assign them the Action Plans permission set and the Action Plans - Consumer Goods Cloud permission set license." This supports option E for the Sales Manager creating the plan.
3. Salesforce Help, Create an Action Plan Template: This document details the process of creating templates for visits. It states, "Create action plan templates for frequently used visit tasks to save your sales reps time." This confirms that the delivery task must be part of a template, supporting option A.