Business Partner replication without contacts ERP - C4C

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Hi Experts,

We have a requirement to implement business partner bidirectional replication between SAP ERP and C4C. However the contact master needs to be detached both ways.

In the ERP to C4C to Contact replication scenario we achieved the requirement by suppressing the mapping and by setting the @contactPersonListCompleteTransmissionIndicator to false in the iflow.

The below CD also describes the same approach https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002626072

So does some parts of the blog:

ERP to C4C Integration Checklist for Customer Projects

We are now trying to find a similar way out for the C4C to ERP scenario. Since the @contactPersonListCompleteTransmissionIndicator is only an indicator and not mapped to any field on the ERP side. And also because there doesn’t seem to be a field like that on the ERP side, we made a shot in the dark by simple removing the mapping for contact persons. Result: change on account in C4C is saved, it does not carry any contact information into ERP, but as a side effect all existing contacts in ERP are deleted.

Do you know of any way to handle this requirement?

Any inputs are appreciated.

Thanks and best.. Suraj