Make your requirements less dumb, your requirements are definitely dumb. Whatever requirement or constraint you have it must come with a name not a department.
Delete the part of process. If you are not occasionally adding things back in you are not deleting enough. The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.
Simplify or Optimize (NOT THE FIRST STEP). The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.
Accelerate cycle time. You are moving too slowly move faster.