1. A management module for an inventory management system, the management module configured to: receive information about a particular item of a plurality of items, the plurality of items including at least some items that differ from one another; utilize the information to identify a set of characteristics of the particular item; determine, from among one or more receiving locations, a designated receiving location designated for receiving the particular item, the designated receiving location having a known position relative to a robotic manipulator configured to grasp at least one item of the plurality of items; and determine, based at least in part on the set of characteristics of the particular item and the known position of the designated receiving location, a tossing strategy for operating the robotic manipulator to move the particular item while grasped by the robotic manipulator to a release point and to release the particular item at the release point so as to cause the identified item to move along a trajectory from the release point to the known position of the designated receiving location, the trajectory having a vertical component and a horizontal component.