How to load AFS Material Master records.

Hello everyone,
I am new to loading AFS Material Master records.  In the past I have simply used the Material Master direct input programs, or batch input, to load the data.  Because of the extra AFS fields, I was guessing there must be a new direct input program, or batch input, for it.  Maybe there is a IDOC that must be used?
Any help will be appreciated.  Thank you all.

Hey there again, I just wanted to bring this subject back up again. 
I always took it for granted the we loaded materials in batches.  We would load basic data for some materials and then extend the plant data, then sales, storloc data, warehouse data.  That is a total of 5 files one after the other.  I never really thought of why we did this, but now that I think about it maybe we did because it only took a little bit of data to create the basic data.  When you extend the plant data, you do not need to enter in the data already created from the initial basic data load.  Sales data only required so much so you could skip all the unnecessary basic and plant data. 
Is that why  you loaded in batches, because it is easier to extend? 
If you wanted to you could have all the basic, plant, sales, purchasing data on one record if you really wanted to.  Why didnu2019t you do it that way?
Thanks for the input.

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